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And the picture's final encounter, with a grotesquely addled Ricky, feels exploitative.
In movies like sex, lies, and videotape (1989), the protagonist has to put away the video camera to "get real"; in American Beauty , it's Ricky Fitts, the damaged stoner videomaker next door, who sees beauty where nonartists see only horror or nothingness.
Pop stars periodically reinvent themselves, but even Ricky Nelson's radical decision to drop the "y" and relaunch himself as "Rick Nelson" was accompanied by a switch to gloomier, more adult material by Dylan and Tim Hardin.
Ricky might represent how Hannah and Annie could have turned out if they'd let go, if they hadn't overcome their bitterness or helplessness to scale the socioeconomic ladder.
The hairpin turns from farce to melodrama, from satire to bathos, are fresh and deftly navigated, but almost every one of the underlying attitudes is smug and easy: from the corporate flunky named "Brad" to the interchangeable gay neighbors (they're both called "Jim") to the brutally homophobic patriarch next door, an ex-Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) who has reduced his wife (the normally exuberant Allison Janney) to a catatonic mummy and his son, Ricky (Bentley), to a life of subterranean deception.