American Beauty

Director : Sam Mendes
- Mendes was a 33 year old "rookie" director and the studio was taking a risk. Still, Speilberg was a powerful ally.

Writer: Alan Ball
- He was unsure with the post modern film that he had written with the implosion of "The American Dream" and the middle class disfunctional family. However everyone was taken waway by the script and dreamwork says "The script met the company's goas for producion a challenging film.

Dreamworks
Put up the 15 million dollar budget and the film was almost pulled serval times. In comparision to the 200 million dollars for the blockbuster "Gladiator" released in the US a year later.
It is a modest film with no special effect just the setting of a normal glossy lifestyle , but obviously it is not what it looks.
DreamWorks, LLC, also known as DreamWorks Pictures, DreamWorks SKG or DreamWorks Studios, is a major American film studio which develops, produces, and distributes films, video games, and television programming. It has produced or distributed more than ten films with box-office grosses totalling more than $100 million each. Its most successful title to date is Shrek 2.[1].
The sales was 350 million world wide including the UK.

Characters

Lester

Lester in a depressive man, who wakes up one day and releases what he had become and rebels against the conventional American man ideal.