"There's a long history of being able to caricature the suburbs and get away with the idea that you're doing something that's deep and profound." From an NPR r

"There's a long history of being able to caricature the suburbs and get away with the idea that you're doing something that's deep and profound." From an NPR report on evil suburbs: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6215779 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6215779 Then again, if American Beauty sells, keep making more of it with the stars of Titanic. Beautiful, I love it, let's do it, see you at The Grill tomorrow. So I can't fault them from a business perspective, but artistically this review sums up my assessment of American Beauty: http://tech.mit.edu/V119/N44/American_Beauty.44a.html http://tech.mit.edu/V119/N44/American_Beauty.44a.html