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  • A Monologue from the film "American Beauty" by Sam Mendes
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CharacterLester Burnham
GenderMale
Age Range(s)Adult (36-50)
Type of monologue / Character isDying, Story conclusion, Talking to the audience
TypeDramatic
Year1999
PeriodAny
GenreDrama
DescriptionLester Burnham's closing monologue

Summary

Lester Burnham is an advertising executive who is going through a mid life crisis. He hates his job and is having problems communicating with his wife Carolyn, a real estate broker and his daughter Jane. After attending a basketball game at his daughter's high school he develops an infatuation for his daughter's friend Angela. He finds the inspiration to change his life and befriends his neighbor Ricky, an introverted teenager who attends his daughter's high school.

At the end of the movie he is killed by Ricky's father, a homophobic US Marine Corps Colonel who turns out to be homosexual as he tries to kiss Lester. Lester rejects him and he is shot dead.

In this monologue Lester is dying or is dead and recounts his memories and reflects on his life.

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Excerpt
Lester: (voice over) "I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all, it stretches forever..."

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