A summary of American Beauty

"American Beauty" is about a seemingly ordinary and happy middle class family with its neighbourhood. Lester, the husband, is in a crisis: middle aged, on the verge of unemployment, indifferent to everything, exhausted from almost everything. Later, drastic changes haven taken place in the life of different family members'. Lester is infatuated by the Jane's friend; Carolyn has a love affair with the man she adores; Jane falls in love with the next-door boy. Actually, it is the broken American dream, the frustrations hid under the placid surface of their life, the dead life that could turn everyone into a lost soul. However, when a new hope in his family just swells in his heart, Lester is murdered by his neighbour, a homosexual.