Character · American Beauty · Alan Ball

Lester Burnham

1 monologue indexed — plays acceptance.

Dramatic-comicAcceptance35–60Intermediate

Monologues

Lester Burnham

American Beauty · Alan Ball

In posthumous voiceover, a suburban father looks back on the stupid, beautiful smallness of his life with sudden gratitude.

FilmDramatic-comicIntermediate

To make you see the beauty he almost missed.He's been shaken awake to what mattered — too late.