3:43 “I watched you closely and you didn’t screw up once!” The writing in this movie is so fantastic. Subtle representation of the kind of person her mother is.
Note how Jane's mother emphasizes that she had watched Jane "closely" and how she "didn't even screw up once". This is important in building up her mother (Carolyn) as a neurotic, obsessive character who was more unnerved by imperfection than not being able to enjoy her daughter's performance as any parent would.
Just one of the million little details a good film gets right but at 1:59 Carolyn's clapping on the 1 and the 3. Totally fits her character and 99 percent likely not an accident.
ripcord1022 Rutine has killed him, his daughter doesn't respect him, his wife treats him like shit, and one day, a tempting demom disguised as a blonde young cheerleader took out all his testosterone, and suddenly he got his balls back.
Fun fact: both this film and American pie are somewhat similar except American pie is a comedy about a teenager and this one is a deep drama about life
@@aquagirl1118 Shut up bitch. This movie was released 23 years ago. The kids in that film portraying 17-18 year olds would be 40-41 now, the same age as Kevin Spacey was at the time. So I'm guessing you probably weren't even fucking born when this movie came out? Well bully for you. Some of us were young when the movie was released.
"The James Bond marathon on TNT." 🤣 My thoughts exactly when I'm forced to go somewhere. Cause there's always something good on t.v. I rather be watching.
Hahahaha....you comment reminded me of that 70's show: Laurie: "Kelso, I only made out with you because there was nothing good on TV" Kelso: "Well, maybe there won't be anything good on TV at your new place......Dam it, there's always something good on TV"
This was such a pathetic movie and unfortunately my first Kevin Spacey movie. It took me several Kevin Spacey movies to realize he is a great actor and rub off the bad taste this movie left me.
@@monicaalva2423 I couldn't disagree with you more. I thought this was an excellent movie, one of my all time favorites. I would be interested to know why you didn't like it.
Jane never fit in, but she was a hypocrite. She enjoyed the privileged suburban lifestyle, but always thought she was "an outsider" who thought she was edgier and more insightful than she was and that she could survive in New York , when in fact, she was too weak and pampered to actually live that lifestyle on her own.
I swear this has happened to me where there is this fine ass girl that just hypnotize me and I literally just think about her for the next 2 days daydream about her and everything it's like being Starstruck
@@jenniferlopez3554 oh I'm not saying that your wrong at all. We actually think alike lol. Trust me if I wasn't engaged, we would be having coffee & etc 😁
I can't believe I just noticed he falls on his ass at 1:11 🤣 He's so meek and unremarkable he blends into the crowd, because I was focused on Carolyn the whole time
I know this seems pervy and it is, but I can totally get that Lester has things waking up inside him. It’s actually beautiful to watch lol, I couldn’t stand the blonde in this movie but I was grateful to her for awakening him lol.
Well that was incredibly awkward. I felt second-hand embarrassment watching it even though it's scripted! The daughter had to be super mortified at that!
I saw this in the theaters. It didn't really resonate with me at the time. It hits a lot harder now that I'm a divorced middle-aged man with a receding hairline.
Agreed. If you're looking for it to make sense go with Angela probably persuaded/Peer pressured her to be one. Or Jane did it so she could feel/be "normal" or Popular.
If you watch the movie its supposed to show the typical American family as much as possible. The characters are generic as hell. Being a cheerleader isn't what she would do definitely but it just is a way to present her as normal as possible to the audience and also to do that weird dream sequence presumably
She's desperately trying to find herself, to the point that she projects inadequacies onto herself that don't really exist, like when she does a search on 'breast implants' early on in the movie even though she clearly doesn't need them. It makes sense that she might try something like cheerleading in that context.
Sam Mendes directed this movie. when Lester says “James Bond marathon on TNT” kinda makes a bunch of sense. He directed like the most out of the Daniel Craig series right? Right.
Yep, he directed Skyfall and Spectre. Not only American Beauty Mendes’ directorial debut, but he before he directed those two Bond movies, he previously worked with Daniel Craig in Road to Perdition. When Lester says James Bond marathon on TNT, maybe it was the 90s, but TNT don’t show the James Bond movies. By the way, I was watching American Beauty in Latin Spanish, and the actor who does the dubbing for Lester is the same as James Bond.
3:43 “I watched you closely and you didn’t screw up once!”
The writing in this movie is so fantastic. Subtle representation of the kind of person her mother is.
Note how Jane's mother emphasizes that she had watched Jane "closely" and how she "didn't even screw up once". This is important in building up her mother (Carolyn) as a neurotic, obsessive character who was more unnerved by imperfection than not being able to enjoy her daughter's performance as any parent would.
I think it's a sign that Carol feels she screws up too much.
Excellent observation
...and a hateable bitch...🤷🏻♂️
Lol!
on which remind me of Hillary Trump.
Narcissistic is the word you were looking for.
the precise instant when Lester 'wakes up'.. magical, a piece of history
Just one of the million little details a good film gets right but at 1:59 Carolyn's clapping on the 1 and the 3. Totally fits her character and 99 percent likely not an accident.
All middle aged mom’s suddenly lose their sense of musical time
Not an accident.
Outstanding observation.
Some white bitch with no rhythm. Got ya
Yeah, Jane wasn’t cheerleader material, but you are missing the point: she was trying to fit in and look cool.
I hate that fitting in shit. Just get in and get iut
I don't think Angela particularly wanted to be a cheerleader really, either. She's also not really interested in the game
@@thegreenmanofnorwich that whole fitting in crap is so stupid.
Jane was the most normal character in the whole movie
I love Thora Birch! She's talented and pretty!
I just love this movie. It is so beautiful in its own way. I guess that is the way the American beauty is.
This movie is so perfect. 🌹
Lester acts just like a high school kid in that scene.
ripcord1022 Rutine has killed him, his daughter doesn't respect him, his wife treats him like shit, and one day, a tempting demom disguised as a blonde young cheerleader took out all his testosterone, and suddenly he got his balls back.
Also, consider he’s actually gay. He’s a great actor.
Fun fact: both this film and American pie are somewhat similar except American pie is a comedy about a teenager and this one is a deep drama about life
The cheer-leading orchestration version of On Broadway is absolutely mesmerizing!
Wich orchestra is this?
Makes you feel kinda old knowing that you are now the same age as spacey when he played this character.
You are old lol
@@aquagirl1118 Shut up bitch. This movie was released 23 years ago. The kids in that film portraying 17-18 year olds would be 40-41 now, the same age as Kevin Spacey was at the time. So I'm guessing you probably weren't even fucking born when this movie came out? Well bully for you. Some of us were young when the movie was released.
I'm not I'm only 29! But if I'm lucky I'll get there eventually and hopefully still look good XD
I was Thora Birch’s age when this film was released. I looked at Spacey and Benning’s character as old. Now I’m them 😢
"The James Bond marathon on TNT." 🤣 My thoughts exactly when I'm forced to go somewhere. Cause there's always something good on t.v. I rather be watching.
Hahahaha....you comment reminded me of that 70's show:
Laurie: "Kelso, I only made out with you because there was nothing good on TV"
Kelso: "Well, maybe there won't be anything good on TV at your new place......Dam it, there's always something good on TV"
@Jason McCann 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It was even funnier in 1999, it was a meme like Shark week on Discovery.
When Lester starts flirting with Angela, Angela is genuinely happy because he actually pays her nice compliments
Plus her comment "I hate it when my mom does that." Obviously there is no father in the home and she probably has daddy issues
It’s weird to see Kevin Spacey lusting after a girl. He’s a better actor than I thought.
Lmao
This was such a pathetic movie and unfortunately my first Kevin Spacey movie. It took me several Kevin Spacey movies to realize he is a great actor and rub off the bad taste this movie left me.
🤣
@@monicaalva2423 maybe u should watch avengers or deadpool , stuff like that
@@monicaalva2423 I couldn't disagree with you more. I thought this was an excellent movie, one of my all time favorites. I would be interested to know why you didn't like it.
This is gonna be the dance my dance team performs at the next basketball game 😂😂😂
"She hates me."
"She's just willful."
"She hates you too."
"..."
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@2300enduserperson1 Hang in there, you have about another 15 more years until he really starts appreciating you.
MOTHERS UNITE!!! 🤗
Damn, skippy.........
@@2300enduserperson1 You're not in charge and he can see that.
@@2300enduserperson1 Something tells me that you're lying ..🤔
@Michelle Bottone
Bullshit! That is just your excuse!
Choreographed by Paula Abdul... digital dancing at it's finest.
Michelle Bottone I can just picture Paula Abdul choreographing this and adding the robot moves. Ugh. Awful.
@@2300enduserperson1 Its supposed to be cringy.
Besides being a cheerleader herself wasn't Paula Abdul a respected choreographer
Jane is beautiful
“ I feel like I’ve been in a coma for twenty years … “ LOL 😂
It happens, trust me 🤣
@@gabrielfranco9155 lol 😆
Me at 25 years old: Must suck being Lester. Me at 45 years old: Sucks being Lester.
Me, now: sucks being Carolyn. Lol.
Kevin Spacey does a real good job in the movie.
Listen to how Lester says "Janey!" So funny
Never bought into Jane being a cheerleader, doesn’t match her personality in the film.
High school girls . Her friend was one so.......
Why doesn't it??
Not very peppy aye
That's kinda the point...
Jane never fit in, but she was a hypocrite. She enjoyed the privileged suburban lifestyle, but always thought she was "an outsider" who thought she was edgier and more insightful than she was and that she could survive in New York , when in fact, she was too weak and pampered to actually live that lifestyle on her own.
Kevin Spacey's voice👌👌👌👌👌
3:58 Smooth :D
I swear this has happened to me where there is this fine ass girl that just hypnotize me and I literally just think about her for the next 2 days daydream about her and everything it's like being Starstruck
@Lebowski 2020 biach
Lebowski 2020 does ‘simp’ mean you prefer heterosexual men to be gay, since they express their attraction to women?
I like how Angela is also taking interest in Lester even when he’s being all weird and goofy and all before he got buffed up.
She wasn't taking interest. This was his fantasy and she craved validation from men even when she didn't actually like them.
@@lavinder11did you watch the movie? She told Jane your dad’s hot and was devastated when he rejected her.
I like this scene . He literally falls in love with a teenager as if he was a teenager himself 😁
Really, any other bitch would call him a pedophile lol
@@djfacts9770 The heart wants what it wants … 😏
@@jenniferlopez3554 oh I'm not saying that your wrong at all. We actually think alike lol. Trust me if I wasn't engaged, we would be having coffee & etc 😁
@@djfacts9770 Lol 😁👍🏻
@@djfacts9770 etc…etc…etc 😁
"I didn't win anything." HAHAHAHA!
‘You didn’t screw up once!’😂
Actually…she did. Lol
I can't believe I just noticed he falls on his ass at 1:11 🤣 He's so meek and unremarkable he blends into the crowd, because I was focused on Carolyn the whole time
Every Thanksgiving I watch the James Bond marathon on TNT!!!
Oh really? I don’t. It’s either a Marvel or Star Wars movie on mine. Which ones?
@@angelcastaneda529 star wars
@@arturkarpinski164, you just said James Bond.
I always thought that Janey was smothered with attention from her parents while Angela was starved of it from hers. Poor girls.
Missing the James Bond marathon. Sam Mandes would eventually direct 2 James Bond movies :)
Skyfall came out ten years ago, man time goes.
Carolyn: C’mon Lester, you’re missing the James Bond marathon.
Lester: The what???
the cheerleader routine and outfits are mild by today's standards...
I know this seems pervy and it is, but I can totally get that Lester has things waking up inside him. It’s actually beautiful to watch lol, I couldn’t stand the blonde in this movie but I was grateful to her for awakening him lol.
Lol Lester is so direct 😆
Maybe too much don't you think 🤣
You spelled ‘horny’ wrong…lol
@@glengamble526 what are you talking about ?
What version of the film is this? I swear the scene was longer in the bluray version. Interesting.
He edited it, just like every other jackass on youtube.
There was no need to edit out the rose petal sequence of the scene. It barely shows Mena Suvari’s cleavage before the CGI comes in. Stupid.
I'll never forget family guy, when Peter was Lester and instead of roses, it was chicken legs 😆
ROADHOUSE....
I remember this came out not long after Columbine and I always thought is this what American schools are actually like
I always thought this was the dance team and not the cheerleading squad
"Very...precise."
Please please bring back Kev!
a bunch of it is cut from the middle!
That awkward moment when the president of the united states becomes a nervous 17 year old desperately trying to flirt with teenage girl.
It's ok, Bill Clinton is gone now. We can all breathe a sigh of relief.
Poor man, he is victim of his own testosterone, his woman has been bad with him.......
@@2300enduserperson1 He loves beautiful women.
I love beautiful women.
What straight man doesnt love beautiful women?
@@2300enduserperson1
"#45," huh? Can't say PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP?
@@zonv5393 Why should we? Does he ever do the job?
There's a little
Lester Burnham in all of us
vegas baywatch excuse me sir , can you elaborate on that
Yes officer this comment right here
This movie is very weird to watch as a 13 year old, and then as a 36 year old.
Why did they cut out the rose petal part?
The brunette so gorgeous
Hotter than the blonde
Lily Norelle 201 and Rod Avery 301
Kevin spaceys chracther is my life right now
I-
I think he is not pathetic but very touching ☺️
No one is talking about the guy traveling before the dunk.
1:12........my Dad in any public setting.
Kevin Spacey was soooo good in this------------it was almost sad & creepy, at once. -------------------------WolfSky9
Mena suvari peaked in this movie,and than she went downhill fast.Kind of sad,would've liked to see what she could do.
That film...is one...of the most horrifying things Ive ever seen.
Al D Great comment totally 👍 AGREE with you
My wife is a spitting image of mena suvari 😁😁
That’s a lot of saliva.
@@jcoltrane8976 lol
In the 60s, my mother wanted to look like Liz Taylor. By the 80s, she looked better than Liz Taylor.
This movie gives me daddy issues
I'm not American but if they're dancers are they not Poms rather than cheerleaders...is that not a separate thing?
I never cared for that movie, but there was some great acting in it!
lol. I miss that part.
In high school I despised cheerleaders. Thank the good Lord above my father was never like that. Philadelphia USA
I've always thought it best if either the family is 100% pro or 100% con cheerleader.
Well that was incredibly awkward. I felt second-hand embarrassment watching it even though it's scripted! The daughter had to be super mortified at that!
It's Paula Abdul digital dancing.
3:40. I’ve seen so many passive aggressive middle aged women like this
I saw this in the theaters. It didn't really resonate with me at the time. It hits a lot harder now that I'm a divorced middle-aged man with a receding hairline.
There is nothing in the story that suggests Jane would be a cheerleader.
Agreed. If you're looking for it to make sense go with Angela probably persuaded/Peer pressured her to be one. Or Jane did it so she could feel/be "normal" or Popular.
If you watch the movie its supposed to show the typical American family as much as possible. The characters are generic as hell. Being a cheerleader isn't what she would do definitely but it just is a way to present her as normal as possible to the audience and also to do that weird dream sequence presumably
She's desperately trying to find herself, to the point that she projects inadequacies onto herself that don't really exist, like when she does a search on 'breast implants' early on in the movie even though she clearly doesn't need them. It makes sense that she might try something like cheerleading in that context.
Not very convincing with what we now know about Spacey
This isn't a cheerocracy! I'm the cheerchtator, and I shall deal with the cheeronsequences!
2:12 we've all been there my man...
Angela is Cute
When did uniforms ever look like that?
1:12 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Ikr? HAHAHAHA
Yeah but remember Kevin is LESTER here not himself. Here he's completely Lester!
Yeah. Mo Lester.
@@evegreenification You're right. It's a shame that a lot of extremely talented people are pervs.
this is exactly what i needed, thank you :)
Thank you for this!! So helped with my class!
Lester is such a creepy name.... MoLester. very Nabokov
So is the name Chester.
Hunter is the creepiest name of all
Not Nabokovian at all.
@@markman63 Kids of millenials are shaking rn.
What was the song that plays during that dance
On Broadway
Sam Mendes directed this movie. when Lester says “James Bond marathon on TNT” kinda makes a bunch of sense. He directed like the most out of the Daniel Craig series right? Right.
Yep, he directed Skyfall and Spectre. Not only American Beauty Mendes’ directorial debut, but he before he directed those two Bond movies, he previously worked with Daniel Craig in Road to Perdition. When Lester says James Bond marathon on TNT, maybe it was the 90s, but TNT don’t show the James Bond movies. By the way, I was watching American Beauty in Latin Spanish, and the actor who does the dubbing for Lester is the same as James Bond.
“Very precise” haha. That’s how i would have acted but with genuine lust, no acting like Mr Spacey lol
Something is telling me that this is me in my 40's
It will be all of us bro.....I'll pray for you.
Ew
Just get high, have a beer, lose all your inhibitions, and go do some crazy, then some jail time....
Hey Lester, Chris Hansen would like to have a word with you.......
spacey playing a het
Paula abdul did this routine
I hated that when my parents did that.
The reason why Spacey was so convincing was that he was imaging them to be male and a bit younger.
Shush
That isn't the full scene ...
That fucking cut...
Hopefully his wife cannot read his mind 😆😂
Omg what an awkward situation THIS DAUGHTER IS TERRIBLE. AND THE OTHER ANGELA IS SO PROMISCUOUS.
Actually Angela wasn’t promiscuous. It was all an act.
Do you think Kevin Spacey replaced her, in his mind, with a 14 year old boy to make the scene more believable?
Do you think Kevin Spacey did his job, which is called acting?
What's with the shoes?
this scene was an omen of worse things to come...
Yas daddy
Oh to be 18 again
Was the rose scene edited? Ridiculous.
Not in a million years would Jane have been a cheerleader.
then why are you using it as an insult
is that really relevant.
Who kills him???
Janey's boyfriend's father.
@@RG7621 thank you!!🤗
Cancel culture
@@Brandon-tk2rw lol