English/Media coursework
American Beauty: Film Review
By Tara Bradshaw
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Allison Janney, Chris Cooper, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards
Genre: Dark comedy/ Drama
Director: Sam Mendes
Certificate: 18
Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is a forty something advertising salesman who, on the outside, has a seemingly perfect life: a wife, a daughter, a beautiful home. However, inside he is unsatisfied with his job, his family, and his boring life; you could say he is having a midlife crisis. His wife Carolyn (Annette Bening), a materialistic and uncaring woman, obsessed with everything being perfect and his daughter Jane (Thora Birch), an angry and insecure teenager who finds him too embarrassing to live, are both too wrapped up in their own lives to notice him. He ultimately feels that his life is pretty pointless.
American Beauty: Film Review
By Tara Bradshaw
Cast: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Allison Janney, Chris Cooper, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards
Genre: Dark comedy/ Drama
Director: Sam Mendes
Certificate: 18
Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is a forty something advertising salesman who, on the outside, has a seemingly perfect life: a wife, a daughter, a beautiful home. However, inside he is unsatisfied with his job, his family, and his boring life; you could say he is having a midlife crisis. His wife Carolyn (Annette Bening), a materialistic and uncaring woman, obsessed with everything being perfect and his daughter Jane (Thora Birch), an angry and insecure teenager who finds him too embarrassing to live, are both too wrapped up in their own lives to notice him. He ultimately feels that his life is pretty pointless.