You don't need a great script. The script written by a man with an obviously dirty mind is the weakest part about "American Beauty". The young director didn't know what he was doing as he admitted recently... Every cast member beside Annette Bening is miscast. And yet the film is really more than the sum of its flawed parts by some cinematic alchemy. It's truly a fascinating creation, almost a cinematic masterpiece every critic then, now or in the future is unable to trash with his words.
Review of American Beauty
