Word: spacey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...What is it like to get to work with big stars like Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening...
...closely, and... (breaks up laughing). No, I'm kidding. These are just gods of the cinema. But at this point; when you're nine and working with Harrison Ford, I don't think you can absorb as much as you do when you're 17 working with Kevin Spacey. Oh, make sure you say I'm 17. Not 18. Everyone keeps saying I'm 18; it's a lie. I'm a minor...
Needless to say, this is film about many things. Mostly, it is about a year in the life of Lester Burnham--father, neighbor, self-hater. Because Lester is played by Kevin Spacey, we can see embers glowing behind his eyes even in the darkly comic early stages of the film when he has hit rock bottom: disdained by his harpy wife (Annette Bening), despised by his daughter (lovely, sad-faced Thora Birch) and distant from his own passions. The highlight of his day, Spacey tells us, is a quiet masturbation session in the shower. "It's all downhill from there...
...Spacey finally plays his hand at a most inopportune moment, at his daughter's cheerleading show, in the form of a rejuvinating fantasy vision of his daughter's sexpot best friend Angela. Burning her way into his mind in a blizzard of rose petals, Angela reignites his sex drive, and soon he's claiming to be a new man: weightlifting, quitting work, bitching out his "joyless" wife for her materialism, and getting the 1970 Pontiac Firebird he always wanted. Because Spacey is such a delight to watch, digging into the material with wit, joy, and not a little smugness...