“American Beauty” quotes
(1999)
Sam Mendes
directed this movie
in 1999
Title American Beauty
Year 1999
Director Sam Mendes
Genre Romance, Drama
Year 1999
Director Sam Mendes
Genre Romance, Drama
Plot – The most important moment of the day of Lester Burnham is the daily masturbation in the shower. For what concerns the rest, his life goes always in the same way, with a job he hates, a wife and a daughter that hate him and think he’s just a loser. One day he meets Angela, one of his daughter’s classmates. He’s charmed by her sensuality and from that moment on his life changes: he quits his job, he gets a good settlement and he begins to truly live. The friendship with his new neighbor Ricky, who’s a drug dealer obsessed with his neo-Nazi father, drops a hint to him: life is worth to be lived fully.
All actors – Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Allison Janney, Chris Cooper, Scott Bakula, Sam Robards, Barry Del Sherman, Ara Celi, John Cho, Fort Atkinson, Sue Casey, Kent Faulcon, Brenda Wehle, Lisa Cloud, Alison Faulk, Krista Goodsitt, Lily Houtkin, Carolina Lancaster, Mona Leah, Chekesha Van Putten, Emily Zachary, Nancy Anderson, Reshma Gajjar, Stephanie Rizzo, Heather Joy Sher, Chelsea Hertford, Amber Smith, Joel McCrary, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Dennis Anderson, Matthew Kimbrough, Erin Cathryn Strubbe, , Bruce Cohen, Elaine Corral Kendall, David C. Fisher, Tom Miller, Ronald Reagan
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“- Carolyn Burnham: Buddy, this is my...
- Lester Burnham: Her husband. We've met before, but something tells me you're going to remember me this time.”“I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary.”
“I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.”
“She's not your friend. She's just someone you use to feel better about yourself.”
- Carolyn Burnham: You were masturbating!
- Lester Burnham: I was not.
- Carolyn Burnham: Yes you were!
- Lester Burnham: Oh, all right! So shoot me, I was whacking off! That's right, I was choking the bishop, chafing the carrot, you know, saying "hi" to my monster!“Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, and my heart is just going to cave in.”
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