The story of a NORMAL Family

Rating: 10/10 (16 February 2004)

Yes, I can definately see why this movie won for best picture. It was a great movie. Cut and dry. You show how a normal family is nowadays inside this wonderful country and put some great actors inside of it, you know you are working with something great.
Kevin Spacey and Annette Benning are a married couple with a teenage daughter who is going through that wonderful phase we all go through, lets try everything once, and twice if we like it. Lester, who has been working at the same company for years, is miserable. He hates his job, he hates going home, he hates dinner, he hates his car, and he is just constricted to the confinements of life all together. He just needs to let go and let loose basically. Then the wonderful Ricky Fitts moves in next door. Now this is a typical Marine family (I am an Marine, so I know what I am talking about). The wife cleans and shes a little out there (my wife cleans and is a little out there if you know what I mean). Their son, who is a drug dealer but of course they don't know that, seems like a nice kid, but video tapes everything, including bags just flying in the air, which he thinks is the most beautiful thing in the world, we all know what he is smoking huh? (my
son is due in June so I don't know this part). The father is a retired Colonel. Very strict, very proper, very neat. Anything weird, unusual, out of the ordinary, shouldn't exsist. (myself, I don't like a couple things but I deal with them). Anyways, Lester idolizes Ricky for his courage to just drop everything and let everything let loose and then bam! You know how it ends.
Its a great movie, the ending really surprised the hell out of me (and hell no the Marines aren't like that, ESPECIALLY colonels). It was something that you definately need to watch and just be like wow, my life is something like that. I am sure anyone who watches this movie can relate some way shape or form.
10 out of 10