American Beauty Revisited: Does Beauty Really Age? |

The late 1990s was an interesting period for films, especially dramas. While you had traditional dramas like Ulee’s Gold, The Talented Mr. Ripley, and Music of the Heart, just to name a few, there were also more cutting edge dramas like The Truman Show, The Insider, Magnolia, and LA Confidential, films that lent themselves to being topical, discussing today’s issues in today’s style, and the crown jewel of topical filmmaking in this period was American Beauty. Winner of five Academy …