Once all has been introduced, the scene that truly
precipitates the rest of the film is the introduction to the Burnham’s new
next-door neighbor – the Fitts. Lester is clearly having an awful time at one
of his wife’s social gatherings, and so he agrees to go outside and smoke weed
with one of the cocktail waiters. He then learns that the waiter is actually
Ricky Fitts, the son of the neighboring family, when Ricky quits his job after
being asked to come inside and work.
Ricky Fitts is the most interesting character in the film. His father is an aggressively homophobic war veteran and his mother seems to have Alzheimer's or some other memory-impairing illness that renders her extremely unresponsive. Prior to living with them, he had been living in a mental institution for two years after his father had him institutionalized.
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