Rating
****/*****, or 8/10
Poetic
and slow paced but ingenious and witty comedy about the Burnham
family, stuck in the typical conventions of the dreary middle-class
suburban life style. The father (Kevin Spacey in an unforgettable
role that rightly won him an Academy Award) one day decides to rebel
against society's suffocating rules when he falls in love with his
teenage daughter's girl friend and starts living his life exactly
like he wants to, much to the dismay of his wife (Annette Bening). Of
course, such a selfish way of living comes with a price. A great cast
of other respectable actors in wonderfully off-beat roles –
including Wes Bentley as a teenager who videotapes every little
aspect of everyday life, Chris Cooper as his ultra-conservative army
dad and Thora Birch posing as a sexually aggressive girl who turns out
to be a virgin – completes this very funny but also at times quite
tragic film, courtesy of Sam Mendes in his directorial breakthrough
(which got him an Oscar too).
Starring:
Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch
Directed
by Sam Mendes
USA:
Dreamworks SKG, 1999
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