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American beauty famous American Dream. Even more surprising, American Beauty comes from Dreamworks, who has specialized in promoting politically correct values in such films as Saving Private Ryan, Prince of Egypt, and The Peacemaker, among others. This new production is not only an important change of artistic hats, but also an audacious bet, knowing that the film denigrates what the other studio productions extol. It's to their credit. The English director, Sam Mendes, for whom this is his first film, is a theater renegade who made his mark with The Blue Room, the sulfurous play with Nicole Kidman, the play that inspired the film Little Voice, and the Broadway adaptation of Cabaret. Kevin Spacey plays the especially pathetic father of a family whose mid-life crisis will suddenly wake him. This crisis, however, is not the subject of the film. On the contrary, it's the catalyst that will explode into...

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