Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) is a gainfully employed suburban husband and father. Fed up with his boring, stagnant existence, he quits his job and decides to reinvent himself as a pot-smoking, responsibility-shirking teenager. What follows is at once cynical, hysterical, and, eventually, tragically uplifting.
Carolyn Burnham: You ungrateful little brat! Just look at everything you have. When I was your age, we... lived in a duplex! We didn't even have our own house!
Over the years, Kevin Spacey has delighted in playing louses: charming men with hearts as black as pitch. In his latest film, Spacey is more a loser than a louse, but his Lester Burnham still maintains some unpleasant, creepy-crawly qualities.