Screenplay Archive
American Beauty — Screenplay1999
- Writers:
- Alan Ball
- Length:
- 121 pages (Hollywood standard format)
Ball's suburban fable — a dead-narrator frame and interwoven family ensemble collapsing beneath an ordinary surface.
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