Word: spacey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...typical. As usual he's smiling, shaking hands and shocking new employees with his distinctive laugh, a rapid honk that sounds like a flock of Canadian geese on nitrous oxide. He's an average-size man with thinning hair, warm brown eyes and a face that suggests Kevin Spacey with more than a hint of Frank Perdue. His uniform tends to be white or blue button-down shirts with collars that efficiently snap rather than button down. Also khakis. You get the feeling that if he wore a tie (he doesn't), it would fly behind him like the parachute...
...AMERICAN BEAUTY Yes, some of the shots at suburbia are cheap. Yes, Kevin Spacey undergoes an all too familiar mid-life crisis. But Sam Mendes directs with vivifying freshness, and Spacey's wicked performance as the cynical, bedeviled protagonist is hands down the year's best...
...ICEMAN COMETH For all its faults, Eugene O'Neill's lumbering meditation on the human condition still puts to shame most of what passes for playwriting today. And Howard Davies' beautiful production from London brought it alive for a new generation. Kevin Spacey put fresh sparks into the role of Hickey, the salesman who sets out to rid the denizens of Harry Hope's bar of their illusions. But nearly every cast member contributed to an electrifying evening...
...start of the movie, Lester Burnham (a brilliant Kevin Spacey), trapped and overly-insulated, leads a meaningless life with no sense of power or self-esteem; bogged down with particulars, he no longer knows how and when to express the proper emotions and can no longer communicate with his daughter or wife. Burnham eventually snaps this spell by developing a strong sexual fantasy for his daughter's 17-year-old friend, triggering an entirely hedonistic lifestyle in which he buys whatever he wants and smokes pot all day. This is a direct reaction to his prior condition of too much...
...refusal to play its characters' idiosyncrasies for shock value, and especially its amoral complicity in Lester's lesser actions. The film's tone is strangely gleeful, for instance, when Lester viciously berates his chilly wife.Winning an argument easily with a self-satisfied put-down that sadistically needles her insecurities, Spacey lets a devilish grin sneak across his face as if to say: ooh! that was fun. Trouble is, Lester's target (adeptly played by Bening) is so easy and his blow so gratuitous that one can't help feeling that he isn't being defiant and rebellious, but merely willfully...