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Nolte: Defending ‘American Beauty’ (1999)

“American Beauty” isn’t saying the suburbs are bad or that chasing high school cheerleaders is okay—quite the opposite. The movie is looking to remind us of how blessed we are, what a miracle the American Dream is, that fathers matter, that family is everything, that men are created by God to protect women, and to appreciate what we have.

Kevin Spacey looks at Mena Suvari as she bathes in rose pedals in a scene from the film &#