American Beauty

Scored entertainment-first on WhatSphere's content-balance model 4

Its writer stated on the record that "pretty much every character does something despicable, but they are very human, You get to see their humanity and you get to see why they're so broken" 1. Its writer stated on the record that "there is spirituality to it, I don't want to define that spirituality as any particular school of thought, It's a spiritual journey where the protagonist recla…" 2. Its director stated on the record that "it's a rites of passage film about imprisonment and escape from imprisonment" 3. Taken together, the content-balance model places it entertainment-first at 15 of 100 4. Relative to the expected cast make-up for its production origin, on-screen representation registers below the baseline for Black and Hispanic 5.

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