American Beauty is a hollywood fantasy and in no way represents true middle America. The only emotionally well adjusted couple in that movie was the MALE homosexual couple.

Male homosexuals RARELY stay in a committed relationship, and speaking of committed, most of them seem like they should be. I have yet to meet, and I have worked and met alot of them, one homosexual couple that was happy and emotionally well adjusted.

The movie was pure fantasy.

The most well behaved, and well adjusted groups of kids in this country are those raised by parents who take a course called "growing kids Gods way" and it lays out exactly how and why and when spanking should be used.