American Beauty ultimately feels like a morality tale with Lester Burnham at the center. By going against the system and ...

Lester Burnham (Spacey) is 42 in American Beauty. 20 years ago that seemed like an unfathomable future. Now he’s only one year older than me. He’s already been married long enough to have a ...

American Beauty became the film that took me from ... Oscar nominations for her pitch-perfect performance as Carolyn Burnham, Lester's ambitious Type A wife who may have her shrewish tendencies ...

Humbert Humbert is the main male character in “Lolita,” while Spacey’s character is named Lester Burnham, an anagram for “Hubert learns.” “American Beauty” was heavily influenced by ...

No doubt influenced by Nabokov’s penchant for anagrams, Ball named the protagonist of American Beauty Lester Burnham: “Humbert learns.” Like Lolita, however, American Beauty is about a man ...

Sam Mendes and Alan Bell's Oscar-winning American Beauty celebrates its ... centres on the breakdown of "chronic loser" Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) and his seemingly perfect, middle class ...

It's hard to believe it's been 15 years since American Beauty hit theatres ... Frank Underwood or Lester Burnham? Take a whack at it. 1. "A great man once said, everything is about sex.

Watching Spacey as Lester Burnham ogling his high school age ... said while taking the stand in New York City on Tuesday. “American Beauty” was the last film of Spacey’s that he watched.

By Sarah Bahr It was March 2000, and everything was coming up roses for “American Beauty ... about a suburban family whose father, Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), quits his office job and ...