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American Beauty (1999) [R]

Release Date:
September 15, 1999

Original Title:
American Beauty

Alternate Titles:
Amerikan Gözəli
Amerikanski prelesti
Američka lepota
Beauté américaine
Belleza americana
Frumusete Americana
Krasa po-amerykansʹky
Postamerikanskiy ornament
amerikanikí omorfiá
아메리칸 뷰티

Genres:
Drama

Production Companies:
DreamWorks Pictures
Jinks/Cohen Company

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AR: +16  AU: MA15+  BR: 18|16  CH: 16  CZ: 12+  DE: 16  DK: 15  ES: 18  FR: TP  GB: 18  GR: 16  HU: 18  IE: 18  IT: VM14  KR: 19  MX: C  NL: 12  NO: 15  PL: 18  PT: M/16  RO: AP  RU: 16+  SE: 15  US: R 

Runtime: 122

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Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.

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Production

24 Frame Playback:
Ralph Merzbach

3D Artist:
John Cassella

ADR & Dubbing:
Jackie Gonneau

ADR Mixer:
Dean Drabin

ADR Recordist:
Brian Basham

ADR Supervisor:
Trevor Jolly

Actor's Assistant:
Dana Brunetti
Kim Mozingo

Additional Camera:
Dana Kroeger

Art Department Coordinator:
Molly Click

Art Direction:
David Lazan

Assistant Accountant:
Victor A. Haddox

Assistant Art Director:
Cat Smith

Assistant Chief Lighting Technician:
John Carney

Assistant Costume Designer:
Marcy Grace Froehlich

Assistant Director:
Tony Adler
Rosemary C. Cremona

Assistant Editor:
Vince Filippone

Assistant Location Manager:
Yoshi Enoki Jr.

Assistant Makeup Artist:
Buffy Zerefski

Assistant Production Coordinator:
Shannon Speaker

Assistant Property Master:
Angela M. Whiting

Best Boy Grip:
Paul Farley

Boom Operator:
Carl Fischer

Camera Loader:
Michael Thomas

Camera Operator:
Geoffrey Haley
Aaron Pazanti

Casting:
Debra Zane

Casting Assistant:
Terri Taylor

Chief Lighting Technician:
James M. Cox

Choreographer:
Paula Abdul

Co-Producer:
Stan Wlodkowski
Alan Ball

Color Timer:
Phil Hetos

Compositing Artist:
Travis Baumann

Construction Coordinator:
Joe Ondrejko

Costume Design:
Julie Weiss

Costume Supervisor:
Hope Slepak

Craft Service:
Krissy Korn

Dialogue Editor:
Mark Gordon
Simon Coke

Digital Compositors:
Olivier Sarda

Director:
Sam Mendes

Director of Photography:
Conrad L. Hall

Dolly Grip:
Carlos M. Gallardo

Driver:
Jeff Couch

Editor:
Christopher Greenbury
Tariq Anwar

Editorial Production Assistant:
Jeffrey Skinner

Electrician:
Ross Dunkerley

Extras Casting:
Raquel Osborne

First Assistant Camera:
Clyde E. Bryan

First Assistant Editor:
Larry Madaras
Tracey Wadmore-Smith

First Assistant Sound Editor:
Thomas O'Neil Younkman

Foley:
Jeffrey Wilhoit

Foley Artist:
James Moriana

Foley Mixer:
Nerses Gezalyan

Foley Recordist:
Greg Zimmerman

Greensman:
Richard W. Jones

Hairstylist:
Cydney Cornell

Key Costumer:
Sanford Slepak

Key Grip:
Bill Young

Key Hair Stylist:
Carol A. O'Connell
Patricia DeHaney

Leadman:
Mike Higelmire
Michael Casey

Libra Head Technician:
Kelly Diehl

Location Assistant:
Chee Ho

Location Coordinator:
Jeff Lovely

Location Manager:
Christine Bonnem

Makeup Artist:
Julie Hewett
Tania McComas

Music Editor:
Bill Bernstein
Joanie Diener

Music Supervisor:
Chris Douridas

Orchestrator:
Thomas Pasatieri

Original Music Composer:
Thomas Newman

Painter:
Chris Samp

Payroll Accountant:
Debbie-Lynn Siegel

Pilot:
Robert 'Bobby Z' Zajonc

Post Production Accountant:
Maria DeVane

Post Production Assistant:
Kevin Du Toit

Post Production Coordinator:
Lisa Marie Serra

Post Production Supervisor:
Lisa Dennis

Producer:
Dan Jinks
Bruce Cohen

Production Accountant:
Janet Lonsdale

Production Assistant:
Steven Buhai

Production Controller:
Jim Turner

Production Coordinator:
Christa Vausbinder

Production Design:
Naomi Shohan

Production Executive:
Steven R. Molen

Production Secretary:
Matt Walker

Production Sound Mixer:
Richard Van Dyke

Projection:
René González

Property Master:
Lynda Reiss

Propmaker:
Rob Garlow

Researcher:
Deborah Ricketts

Rigging Gaffer:
Huston Beaumont

Rigging Grip:
Gerald A. King

Scoring Mixer:
Dennis S. Sands

Script Supervisor:
Ana Maria Quintana

Second Assistant Camera:
Mike Gentile

Second Assistant Director:
Peter E. Hirsch

Second Second Assistant Director:
Stephanie Kime

Second Unit Director of Photography:
Conrad W. Hall
David Golia

Second Unit First Assistant Director:
Chris Edmonds

Set Costumer:
Alix Hester
Kanani Wolf

Set Decorating Coordinator:
Lisa Penaranda

Set Decoration:
Jan K. Bergstrom

Set Designer:
Andrea Dopaso
Suzan Wexler

Set Dressing Artist:
Ian Kay

Set Production Assistant:
Mike Piccirillo

Sound Effects Editor:
Bryan Bowen
Alan Rankin

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Scott Millan
Bob Beemer

Special Effects Assistant:
Jason Hansen

Special Effects Coordinator:
John Hartigan

Special Effects Technician:
Jerry Miscevich

Stand In:
Holiday Freeman

Standby Painter:
Christian Zimmermann

Still Photographer:
Lorey Sebastian

Storyboard Artist:
Tony Chance
Robin Richesson

Studio Teachers:
Pia Mehr

Stunt Coordinator:
Ben Scott

Supervising Sound Editor:
Scott Martin Gershin

Swing:
Brook Bacon

Thanks:
Nicole Kidman
Pete Townshend

Transportation Captain:
Randy Lovelady

Transportation Coordinator:
A. Welch Lambeth

Unit Production Manager:
Cristen Carr Strubbe

Unit Publicist:
David Linck

Utility Stunts:
Phil Culotta

Visual Effects Compositor:
Matt Dessero

Visual Effects Coordinator:
Paula Bonhomme

Visual Effects Editor:
Matt Magnolia

Visual Effects Producer:
Jonathan F. Styrlund
Janet Yale

Visual Effects Supervisor:
Rob Hodgson
David Goldberg

Writer:
Alan Ball

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