American Beauty: Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey)

Either way, if the Col. shot his own wife or Lester the blood gets on him so theory of the blood splatter being only one direction is irrelevant.

Agreed

Sweet. Nice job on the research.

Nice one for the mythbusters!

but why...why was lester killed? We know who killed him..fitss is seen wearing gloves and covered in blood with a gun in his hand so ovbiously he killed him ..i wanted to know why..was it because fitss tried to kiss lester? was it because he thought lester had molested his son? why did he kill him? thats what I want to know. I bet the producers of this movie are still laughing knowing we are still asking questions over a movie that was made back in 1999! why was lester shot?

yes it was Angela who asked him..how are you? and he said its been a long time since anyone asked me that..then he says I am great..so yes it was anglal hayes who asked him that question. he didnt bag angela yes because she was a vigin and he said while he would be honored to be her first he didnt want to go there. she came off in the film as bieng a major slut but actually was a virgin. good call!

It was Ricky wot dun the murder. He is commissioned by Thora Birch to do it and he has access to the guns. Yes this does fall down when we see Ricky and Thora Hird in the bedroom hearing the shot. I heard that Mendez had a scene cut out of the film where Ricky and somebody else - possibly the Mum were accused of moidering Lester. Perhaps it was the Colonel's mad wife then - fed up with being pushed around by a bender and seeking solace by shooting the man that rebuffed him when after a bit o bum fun

fittz might not have killed lester because he was afraid of being outted has a gay..i think he killed him because he was a main reason for ricky and his father falling out, ultimatly leading to ricky leaving..mr fittz was mad at lester for acting like he wasnt interested when clearly (to mr fittz) he was..he killed lester out of anger of losing his son and his wife was half retarded..simple as that,..its kinda fkd up..i jus like watching that BAG dance out..so pretty..lol

There really needs to be an Offscreen killer category here too. As well as this, I would say Lester could quite easily be classed as a Goody (Major) in my opinion, but that's just me.

It could have still been her. She didn't react to the faint gunshot, as it was so faint. That particular gunshot could have been the Colonel shooting his own wife. By reviewing the facts in the movie and how they replayed the gunshot a few times, you don't know the sequence of events and it is not definitive who shot whom. I think that in itself is one of the beauties of the movie, that it doesn't really matter. It is interesting to debate and see other people's thoughts though!