1999: 5 Academy Awards: Movie, Director, Actor (Kevin Spacey), Screenplay, Cinematography. 8 Nominations 1999: 3 Golden Globes: Best Movie - Drama, Director, Screenplay. 6 Nominations 1999: 6 Awards BAFTA, including Best Movie, Cinematography, Editing. 14 Nominations 1999: Nominated for Cesar: Best Foreign Language Picture 1999: Nominated for David of Donatello: Best Foreign Language Picture 1999: 2 Awards National Board of Review: Best Movie, Actor (Wes Bentley) 1999: Festival Toronto: Best Director (Sam Mendes), Audience Award
Kevin Spacey plays Lester Burnham, a middle aged man suffering from a mid-life crisis. He has an epiphany when he lays his eyes on one of his daughter Jane's friends. Woken from his suburban coma, he takes it upon himself to make a few changes -- like quitting his job and buying the car of his dreams. His wife, Carolyn (Annette Bening), is a frustrated control freak who is only maddened by his escalating freedom, and his daughter (Thora Birch) just plain hates him. His wife's reaction to the situation is to fall in the arms of a colleague (Peter Gallagher). The chaos in the neighborhood becomes more complicated with the arrival of an equally dysfunctional family consisting of a stern ex-Marine, his vacuous wife and their detached, drug-dealing son Ricky, who becomes involved with Jane.
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