Excellent, it deserved the academy awards it got.

Rating: Null/10 (21 January 2004)

Kevin Spacy plays a troubled, depressed father who works in the advertising industy named Lester Burnham. He decides to throw caution into the wind in an attempt to be happier. His wife is a real estate agent who, cracking under the job's pressure, feels the need to have more intamacy in her life, elsewhere from her husband. Their daughter Janie is looking for something to do with her life and becomes interested in the boy whose family moved next door. That boy, has issues of his own while he contends with his colnol father.

all of the above is well told and plays out flawless. Everyone's performances were dead on accurate and the story was original, above all. This is the way life is before your eyes!
highly recommended. ****