Lester Burnham (Spacey) is 42 in American Beauty. 20 years ago that seemed like an unfathomable future. Now he’s only one year older than me. He’s already been married long enough to have a ...

American Beauty is a famously beloved film that attracted feverish critical acclaim upon its release — fifteen years ago today — and went on to gross over $350 million worldwide.

Any investigation into how and why American Beauty is the worst Best Picture winner of the modern era must begin, as all films do, with the screenplay.Alan Ball was going through his own Lester ...

Examining 'American Beauty' at 15: ... Lester could have been Walter White if he knew anything about chemistry. Therefore, we can’t falsely glorify him—as so many did in the case of Walt.

American Beauty is, at least at its surface, a black comedy and suburban drama that follows the self-destruction of a middle-class American family. It centres around patriarch Lester Burnham ...