34/100 American Beauty
DreamWorks/Courtesy Neal Peters Collection34 American Beauty – P 2014Director: Sam Mendes Cast: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening Domestic lifetime gross (adjusted for inflation, 2014): $198,483,000Famous quote: “Remember those posters that said, ‘Today is the first day of the rest of your life?’ Well, that’s true of every day but one — the day you die.” — Lester Burnham Chevy Chase, Kevin Costner, and John Travolta all reportedly were considered for the part of Lester Burnham (which, incidentally, is an anagram for “Humbert learns,” one of the film’s many hat tips to Lolita).
