My all-time favorite.

Amazing movie, funny and insightful. Kids may not understand the material. There is also sexual content, violence and drug use.

This movie is one of those rare films that is both art and entertainment. I fell in love with this movie from start to finish and watched it 3 times over again the day after. Amazing, beautiful, well-acted, excellently written and shot, funny, cool, and explicit. Many would say this movie is for adults only, but as you can see, I'm fourteen and had no problem at all with it. There's some sexual dialogue amd two or three bare-breasted incidents. The first is the shortest, less than a second long. A flash of a website on a computer. The second is medium, seen from a distance, maybe ten seconds or a bit more. Not that much. But the last incident, very near the powerful ending, is a couple of minutes. It's pretty long. But again, I could handle it and I think you need to know your kid before you let him/her see this movie. There is a handful of language, but it's not PULP FICTION, and towards the end there is one very violent murder resulting in a LOT of blood pouring from someone's head, but it's not a waterfall. It's a pretty explicit movie but one of the best I've ever seen. Adults, go rent it and bring your MATURE teens with you, kids, ask.

To me, American Beauty is reminiscent of Woody Allen; except R-rated and modernized. Just like Battleship Potemkin or Citizen Kane, Beauty is like a textbook for filmmakers; it’s the definition of a successful motion picture. You may be saying, “I’ve seen Annie Hall and Manhattan, they’re nothing like American Beauty.” Consider the subjects of movies such as Hannah and Her Sisters and Interiors; love and lust; rape and sexual violence. Some of the best performances of the decade can be found in Beauty; Kevin Spacey knocks ‘em dead with his performance as Lester Burnham, a troubled suburban man going through mid-life crisis. Spacey’s performance is extremely powerful because sometimes you want to laugh at him and sometimes you want to scream at him. Lester is very believable and maybe even relatable to. Annette Bening also does a marvelous job as Lester’s wife. Sometimes I crack up thinking that this was the same woman who played the prez’s lover in The American President. Spacey and Bening’s, well, hate for each other is a show-stealer. Alan Ball does a superb job with the script, giving it an excellent plot and adding things such as a narrator and a truly thumbs-up opening sequence. Climax, conflict? He does it all. The artistic direction and cinematography are also fantastic, another great combo. If you haven’t seen American Beauty or you have and hated it: watch it (again). It’s a masterpiece.

This is not a movie meant for kids... at all. Teens though, if they can handle it, should be shown this incredible piece of modern cinema. It's got lots of nudity, boatloads of strong sexual content, language, drugs, and disturbing violent content. However, it will beneficial for any teen to see that is an aspiring film critic like myself or one who is a big movie fan. Parents should watch it first.

Absolutely perfect! Children will love it and cry for days because it is so incredible!

Horrible movie. So much is soo wrong with it. Grown man lusting after and fantasizing about young girls. Showing the private parts of girls who were underage when filming the movie. I left the movie feeling, dirty, terrible, disturbed, etc. It does make you think, but it's not worth it. Terrible waste of time and money.

Full of sex, violence, you name it. It was disgusting. If you're a parent who has no idea what this movie is about, please know one thing, it's not for kids of any age!

American beauty is for people who love film as an art, a story as good as it could ever be the academy treated the film with the up most respect and so should you , not made for young children and if weak minded its not for you either