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                                                                    Exhibit 10.5


                        AMENDMENT DATED DECEMBER 7, 1999
                                     to the
                      APPLIED EXTRUSION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
                             1991 STOCK OPTION PLAN


Section 6(e) of the Applied Extrusion Technologies, Inc. 1991 Stock Option Plan
is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:

                    "(e) LIMITED TRANSFERABILITY OF OPTIONS. Except as otherwise
               determined by the Committee in the case of nonstatutory options,
               no option may be transferred other than by will or by the laws of
               descent and distribution and during the participant's lifetime an
               option may be exercised only by the participant."


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