@article{313998, note = {Originally released as motion picture in 1999.}, author = {Mendes, Sam. and Ball, Alan, and Cohen, Bruce. and Jinks, Dan. and Spacey, Kevin. and Bening, Annette. and Birch, Thora. and Suvari, Mena, and Bentley, Wes, and Cooper, Chris,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/313998}, title = {American beauty [videorecording] /}, publisher = {DreamWorks Home Entertainment,}, abstract = {An emotionally & spiritually comatose suburban man decides "to hell with it all" and reverts to living as he did when he was happiest--as a carefree teenager. His desperately uptight wife and sullen daughter can only look on as he quits his corporate job to become a burger flipper, starts getting high with a strange new neighbor (whose parents are even stranger) and lusts after a pouty blonde teenager--his daughter's best friend.}, recid = {313998}, pages = {1 videodisc (122 min.) :}, address = {Universal City, CA :}, year = {2000}, }