American Beauty (1999 film) and "Magnolia"). In 2006, the Writers Guild of America ranked the screenplay number 38 on its list of the 101 greatest screenplays. Annotations Footnotes Bibliography American Beauty (1999 film) American Beauty is a 1999 American drama film written by Alan Ball and directed by Sam Mendes in his feature film directorial debut. Kevin Spacey stars as Lester Burnham, a 42-year-old advertising executive who has a midlife crisis when he becomes infatuated with his teenage daughter's best friend, Angela (Mena Suvari). Annette Bening co-stars as Lester's materialistic wife, Carolyn, and Thora Birch plays their insecure daughter, Jane. Wes Bentley, Chris Cooper,
Burnham Without the South West England constituency of the European Parliament which elects seven MEPs using the d'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation. Burnham Without Burnham Without is the parish in the main located to the east of Burnham-on-Sea, the Motorway/M5 and north & north east east of Highbridge in the Sedgemoor district of Somerset, England. The parish includes the villages of Watchfield, Southwick and Edithmead. The developed fringes of eastern Burnham itself are also in the parish. The parish in 2011 had a population of 796. Mostly rural Burnham Without consists of drained, low-lying agricultural land between the coast at Burnham