American Beauty’s midlife crisis: ‘The Kevin Spacey scandal doesn’t really have anything to do with the movie’
The IndependentMoments after the opening credits, a middle-aged family man with a seemingly perfect life is shown jerking off during his morning shower – he confides in a voiceover that it’s “the highpoint of my day. open image in gallery Actor Kevin Spacey arriving at London’s Southwark Crown Court for his sex assault trial – he is accused of predatory behaviour toward a succession of young men. open image in gallery Kevin Spacey as Lester Burnham and Mena Suvari as Angela Hayes in ‘American Beauty’ Movies like these simply aren’t being made today – it’s one reason why American Beauty already seems like such a period piece. open image in gallery Spacey as Lester and Thora Birch as his moody daughter Jane in ‘American Beauty’ However, they liked the movie for a reason. It hurts like hell at the end of the day, that doesn’t really have anything to do with the movie or the script or the characters that we are playing or the experience that we had.” It will take time, but Birch is confident that the “stain” left on the film will soon fade and that audiences and critics will again be able to judge American Beauty on its own merits – and not on the basis of its star’s already well-documented alleged misbehaviour.
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