“1970 Pontiac Firebird. The car I’ve always wanted and now I have it. I rule!” — Lester Burnham
What’s it all about? Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is a middle-aged, in a failed marriage and has a daughter who hates him. He experiences a midlife crisis after becoming infatuated with his teenage daughter’s best friend, resulting disastrously for every character within the film.
After watching “Beyond the Sea” (2004), I was jonesing to watch something else with Kevin Spacey. So, I picked the film that won him his second Oscar. (“The Usual Suspects” was checked-out at my video store.) The editing, directing and acting in this movie are so precise that I am not surprised that it won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The voiceover by Lester (Kevin Spacey) brings together the film’s smaller moments, proposing an understanding of beauty that we could only hope to achieve.
Favourite Scene: When Lester appears at the drive-in window, accosting his wife and her lover with their order of curly fries and a cheerful “Smile! You’re at Mr. Smiley’s!”. Whoah, you are so busted.
Notes: Directed by Sam Mendes; Produced by Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks; Written by Alan Ball; Starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Allison Janney, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari; Music by Thomas Newman; Cinematography by Conrad L. Hall; Editing by Tariq Anwar, Christopher Greenbury.
Sasha James, otherwise known as The Final Girl Project, is a twenty-something Torontonian with an unhealthy amount of her week reserved for film and television. She also moonlights as The Doctor's companion on Saturdays. 
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Alan Ball writes for Six Feet Under.
Sam Mendes directed Away We Go.
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