Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Mena Suvari and Thora Birch star in the multi Oscar-winning black satire about modern American manners.   Lester Burnham is a man in mid-life crisis; his estate agent wife Carolyn despises him, while teenage daughter Jane is disgusted by the obsession he develops with her attractive friend Angela. In an attempt to recapture the lost days of his youth, Lester takes a job flipping burgers, and begins working out in his garage to the strains of \'Dark Side of the Moon\'. He also rediscovers the joys of recreational drugs, supplied by new neighbour Ricky Fitts who has also started dating Jane.