American Beauty (1999)






A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.


Books with substantial mentioning of American Beauty

David Thomson
Have you seen?, A personal introduction to 1,000 films
New York, 2008

Jürgen Müller
Filme der 90er
Köln-London-Madrid-New York-Paris-Tokyo, 2001

Michelle Banks (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 2000, 19th Edition. A Survey of the Films of 1999
Detroit, New York, [..], 2000

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 1. Films
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

Peter W. Engelmeier (ed.)
Icons of film, The 20th century
Munich; New York, 2000

Articles on American Beauty

Toby Reynolds, Hungry Children and Starving Fathers, Auteurist notions of father hunger in American Beauty, in: Luke Hockley (ed.), The Routledge international handbook of Jungian film studies, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY, 2018



Year: 1999
Country: United States
Language: English
 
IMDb: 0169547