Domande frequenti

Lester Burnham is a hapless 42-year-old magazine executive. He hates his job and he lives with his ambitious real estate agent wife Carolyn and their insecure teenage daughter Jane which he doesn't get along with them. As retired military officer, abusive father and homophobe Col. Frank Fitts, his catatonic depressed wife Barbara and their eccentric and sensitive teenage son Ricky moves in next door, Lester's life is turned upside down when he meets Jane's attractive best friend Angela Hayes at a basketball game and Lester develops a crush on Angela and begins having sexual fantasies about her and Lester's crush on Angela influences him to start working out and quit his job which he gains employment at a fast food restaurant. Jane and Ricky begin a relationship and Jane discovers Frank had Ricky put in a mental hospital and Ricky has a massive collection of videotapes in his bedroom which he records about everything in the environment and Ricky shows Jane a recording he made of a plastic bag being blown in the wind which Ricky claims to be beautiful and Jane decides to open up to Ricky about her body insecurities by having Ricky record her removing her shirt and her bra which she exposes her breasts. Carolyn decides to cheat on Lester by having an affair with womanizing rival real estate agent Buddy Kane. But, Lester learns about the affair when he catches them together at the fast food restaurant where he works and Buddy dumps Carolyn. However, things begin taking a dark turn when Frank breaks into Ricky's bedroom and watches some of his videotapes and discovers one of Lester working out and he attacks Ricky and wrongly accuses him of having a homosexual affair with Lester and he evicts Ricky and disowns him and Ricky goes to Lester's house and tells Jane he is leaving to New York and he wants Jane to go with him. But, Jane leaving to New York with Ricky angers Angela who berates Jane and Ricky and Jane in return scolds Angela for flirting with Lester and ends their friendship and Ricky insults Angela by calling her an ugly boring person when Angela insults Ricky by calling him a weirdo because of his videotapes. Lester consoles a emotionally hurt Angela and they succumb to their feelings for each other and they decide to have sex. As Lester unbuttons her shirt which Angela is not wearing a bra, Lester cannot bring himself to do the deed when Angela reveals she is a virgin and a furious and distraught Frank goes to Lester's house to confront Lester about Ricky and Frank is crying and Lester tries to console Frank and Frank tries to kiss Lester, but Lester rejects him due to a misunderstanding and Frank decides to take revenge on Lester and Carolyn drives home and arms herself with a gun and decides to kill Lester.