3:43 “I watched you closely and you didn’t screw up once!” The writing in this movie is so fantastic. Subtle representation of the kind of person her mother is.
Note how Jane's mother emphasizes that she had watched Jane "closely" and how she "didn't even screw up once". This is important in building up her mother (Carolyn) as a neurotic, obsessive character who was more unnerved by imperfection than not being able to enjoy her daughter's performance as any parent would.
ripcord1022 Rutine has killed him, his daughter doesn't respect him, his wife treats him like shit, and one day, a tempting demom disguised as a blonde young cheerleader took out all his testosterone, and suddenly he got his balls back.
Fun fact: both this film and American pie are somewhat similar except American pie is a comedy about a teenager and this one is a deep drama about life
Just one of the million little details a good film gets right but at 1:59 Carolyn's clapping on the 1 and the 3. Totally fits her character and 99 percent likely not an accident.
"The James Bond marathon on TNT." 🤣 My thoughts exactly when I'm forced to go somewhere. Cause there's always something good on t.v. I rather be watching.
Hahahaha....you comment reminded me of that 70's show: Laurie: "Kelso, I only made out with you because there was nothing good on TV" Kelso: "Well, maybe there won't be anything good on TV at your new place......Dam it, there's always something good on TV"
@@aquagirl1118 Shut up bitch. This movie was released 23 years ago. The kids in that film portraying 17-18 year olds would be 40-41 now, the same age as Kevin Spacey was at the time. So I'm guessing you probably weren't even fucking born when this movie came out? Well bully for you. Some of us were young when the movie was released.
This was such a pathetic movie and unfortunately my first Kevin Spacey movie. It took me several Kevin Spacey movies to realize he is a great actor and rub off the bad taste this movie left me.
@@monicaalva2423 I couldn't disagree with you more. I thought this was an excellent movie, one of my all time favorites. I would be interested to know why you didn't like it.
@@jenniferlopez3554 oh I'm not saying that your wrong at all. We actually think alike lol. Trust me if I wasn't engaged, we would be having coffee & etc 😁
I honestly think that's true of a lot of teenage kids. My son is 10, and I already see it building. I don't hit him, belittle him, scream at him...nothing at all like that. I just try to be the best mom I can. He still throws shade!
I swear this has happened to me where there is this fine ass girl that just hypnotize me and I literally just think about her for the next 2 days daydream about her and everything it's like being Starstruck
I know this seems pervy and it is, but I can totally get that Lester has things waking up inside him. It’s actually beautiful to watch lol, I couldn’t stand the blonde in this movie but I was grateful to her for awakening him lol.
I can't believe I just noticed he falls on his ass at 1:11 🤣 He's so meek and unremarkable he blends into the crowd, because I was focused on Carolyn the whole time
Jane never fit in, but she was a hypocrite. She enjoyed the privileged suburban lifestyle, but always thought she was "an outsider" who thought she was edgier and more insightful than she was and that she could survive in New York , when in fact, she was too weak and pampered to actually live that lifestyle on her own.
According to #45, he's never nervous. "Whenever I see a beautiful woman, I just start kissing them. You gotta go for it." I had visions of #45 dry humping some poor victim right there in public.
Well that was incredibly awkward. I felt second-hand embarrassment watching it even though it's scripted! The daughter had to be super mortified at that!
I saw this in the theaters. It didn't really resonate with me at the time. It hits a lot harder now that I'm a divorced middle-aged man with a receding hairline.
Agreed. If you're looking for it to make sense go with Angela probably persuaded/Peer pressured her to be one. Or Jane did it so she could feel/be "normal" or Popular.
If you watch the movie its supposed to show the typical American family as much as possible. The characters are generic as hell. Being a cheerleader isn't what she would do definitely but it just is a way to present her as normal as possible to the audience and also to do that weird dream sequence presumably
She's desperately trying to find herself, to the point that she projects inadequacies onto herself that don't really exist, like when she does a search on 'breast implants' early on in the movie even though she clearly doesn't need them. It makes sense that she might try something like cheerleading in that context.
Sam Mendes directed this movie. when Lester says “James Bond marathon on TNT” kinda makes a bunch of sense. He directed like the most out of the Daniel Craig series right? Right.
Yep, he directed Skyfall and Spectre. Not only American Beauty Mendes’ directorial debut, but he before he directed those two Bond movies, he previously worked with Daniel Craig in Road to Perdition. When Lester says James Bond marathon on TNT, maybe it was the 90s, but TNT don’t show the James Bond movies. By the way, I was watching American Beauty in Latin Spanish, and the actor who does the dubbing for Lester is the same as James Bond.
