Lester Burnham made his midlife crisis. So, as a remedy, it drops his job, drag a friend of his daughter, a minor, firecrackers smoke ... In short, that good ideas ... amid American suburb "middle-class" neat, with very own homes, lawns mowed well, very nice neighbors ... Lester Burnham is tired of pretense, of hypocrisy, of "challenges", ideals that are not his. Lester Burnham, through the example of his personal crisis, describes the crisis of a whole society, including how far we wonder she can keep ... Insidiously, slowly, the film leads us to a bitter end ... what will it be for this company? ... Cynical desire, deliciously wry, Kevin Spacey ("Seven", "The Usual Suspects" ...) is literally magnificent in this film he carries from beginning to end!