American Beauty: Lester and the Character Arc American Beauty is one-hundred and twenty two minute piece about a family, consisting of a teenage daughter with self-perception issues, a middle-aged wife that has an inferiority complex and a middle-aged husband with an extreme mid-life crisis. Most men that go through these "times" in their life normally buy a sports car (usually a convertible one that's in a bright color and extremely small, like one of those …
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…him. Who knows, maybe Lester got his act together and would re-devote himself back to reality. I think killing off the main character at this point in the movie only made it a two act story. I know some people will disagree, as usual (why can't we all conform?), but I think there is much more to this story. But this isn't my movie, it's just my paper, so I'll "pass the fucking asparagus" now.