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 …showed first 75 words of 671 total…

…showed last 75 words of 671 total…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.