I can honestly say that I have never seen a film quite like American Beauty. The plot centers around 2 suburban American families that are coming apart at the seams. The acting is superb, not only by Kevin Spacey and Annette Benning, but also by the young actors playing the teenagers in the movie - Wes Bentley in particular is a standout. The cinematography is outstanding and the music adds tremendously to the mood of the film. At the end of this movie I left the theater feeling strangely uplifted, despite the dark subject matter. Not to be missed - a classic.
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Proof
(1991)
A little gem
17 April 2000
If you are a Russell Crowe fan like me you owe it to yourself to go rent this early example of his work, which deservedly won many Australian film awards in 1991. The plot centers around 3 people - Martin (Hugo Weaving), blind since birth and distrustful of the world, his manipulative housekeeper Celia (Genevieve Picot), and Martin's young friend Andy (Crowe), whom he meets early in the movie. Martin feels that everyone lies to him, even his mother, because he is blind and "because they can." He takes pictures of his world in order to have "proof" that what people are telling him is true. Andy is the person he recruits to describe his photographs to him. The acting is first rate and the movie is in turn sad, funny, dark, and heart warming. In the end, Martin learns that although no one is perfect, sometimes you just have to trust in love. Highly recommended!
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