"American Beauty" and "The Sixth Sense", both 1999 Academy Award nominees, were films of, as general reviews say, exquisite making and the second and third highest- grossing PPV movies ever for On Command, behind only 20th Century Fox's There's Something About Mary. (Unstead,28) Each movie was based on some part of human development and humanity's struggle to find a median for existence, as well as acceptance of the things that for us, as beings who are …showed first 75 words of 1440 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1440 total…won the title of "Best Picture", which one may certainly say was it's right to do so, both "American Beauty" and "The Sixth Sense" left audiences with thoughts that would never have occurred to them had they not been viewed. The clear and concise way that, without giving away the ending, both films kept audiences in, to a certain degree, suspense, should be duly noted and has obviously, according to reviews, affected the general populace.