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...Thora Birch: One of the most difficult scenes for me was the dinner scene with Kevin [Spacey] and Annette [Bening]. At times they were so spontaneous that they would come up with different things and try different responses. It was very hard to stay inside myself and not bust out laughing. I think there is even a shot in it where you can tell that I am about to lose...
...this one and American Pie. With unshaven, not-quite-ratty stubble that gave him the look of a leaner, more thoughtful Tobey Maguire, Wes Bentley (the intense drug dealer and video voyeur Ricky Fitts) stayed mostly quiet during our encounter. But, in the end, it was precocious, prickly Thora Birch-- still 17, no matter what you read--who made the most impression on me. Sweatered in the heat, she told me about making the transition from child actor (in movies like Patriot Games, Hocus Pocus and Alaska) to adult roles, and the joys of teaching Kevin Spacey a thing...
Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) hates his job and the cubicle to which it confines him. He has also come to despise his tense and frigid wife Carolyn (Annette Bening), to mourn the sullen silence that has descended between him and his teenage daughter Jane (Thora Birch), to loathe the sterile suburbia where they all try to make emotional ends meet. Lester masturbates a lot, especially when he gets to thinking about his daughter's friend Angela (Mena Suvari), the American Beauty of the title...
...think that they are doing a lot of good things," says Jason D. Birch, a first-year graduate student, "and students are excited...
...problem is that a lot of people who need to do it (socialize outside of the laboratory), don't," Birch says. "They think they can't. It's fun for the people who don't need...