AMERICAN BEAUTY

Lester Burnham decides to make a few changes in his rut of a life, changes that are less midlife crisis than adolescence reborn. The freer he gets, the happier he gets, which is even more maddening to his wife, Carolyn, and daughter, Jane, especially when he turns his lustful gaze toward Jane's friend, the sultry Angela. Carolyn responds by focusing her attention on real estate colleague Buddy Kane. Compounding the chaos on Robin Hood Trail is the arrival next door of an equally turbulent family: strict Marine Colonel Fitts, his vacant wife, Barbara, and his distant son, Ricky, who soon develops a fascination with Jane.