DreamWorks financed the $15-million production and served as its North American distributor. Producers Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen took the script for American Beauty to the fledgling DreamWorks studio, which bought it for $250,000, outbidding several other production bodies.
The rewritten script had a cynical outlook influenced by Ball's frustrating tenures writing for several sitcoms. After several years as a television screenwriter, Ball revived the idea in 1997 when attempting to break into the film industry. He shelved the play after deciding that the story would not work on stage. Academics have described the film as a satire of American middle class notions of beauty and personal satisfaction further analysis has focused on the film's explorations of romantic and paternal love, sexuality, materialism, self-liberation, and redemption.īall began writing American Beauty as a play in the early 1990s, partly inspired by the media circus that accompanied the Amy Fisher trial in 1992. Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper, and Allison Janney also feature. Annette Bening stars as Lester's materialistic wife, Carolyn, and Thora Birch plays their insecure daughter, Jane. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, an advertising executive who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, played by Mena Suvari. American Beauty is a 1999 American black comedy- drama film written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes.
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