Film is a manipulative art form.

Great movies toy with the audiences emotions, eliciting laughter, tears, fear and joy. They make viewers think, respond and feel.
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Like the terminal diagnosis that sets its story in motion, there's no doubt how Life As a House will end. It's just a question of how painful the journey will be.

This everybody-get-happy version of American Beauty focuses on George Monroe (Kevin Kline), a middle-aged architect who loses his job one day and finds out he has cancer the next.
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