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Nov 15, 2016 · The American Dream tells you that you can achieve success through hard work and determination. What follows is a selection of movies that shows it’s not always as simple as that.
May 15, 2024 · What’s the best movie about the American Dream? Is it a heartwarming rags-to-riches story or a consumed-by-greed cautionary tale? Vote up the movies you think encapsulate the American Dream.
- The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) Chris Gardner (Smith) is a family man struggling to make ends meet. Despite her efforts to keep the family together, the mother (Newton) of their five-year-old son Christopher lives under constant stress due to financial difficulties.
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) Spoiled and neurotic, southerner Blanche DuBois, trying to escape her past that includes heavy alcohol addiction, the loss of an inherited plantation, and the seduction of a minor, goes to her sister Stella Kowalski.
- Spanglish (2004) Mexican woman Flor (Paz Vega) has a 12-year-old daughter Christina (Shelbie Bruce). She starts working as a maid in a rich family that has a lot of problems.
- The Social Network (2010) One fall evening in 2003, Harvard student and genius computer programmer Mark Zuckerberg sat down at his computer and began working on a new idea.
- ‘The Pursuit of Happyness’
- ‘The Founder’
- ‘Spanglish’
- ‘Hustle & Flow’
- ‘Gangs of New York’
- ‘Minari’
- ‘Revolutionary Road’
- ‘Dolemite Is My Name’
- ‘99 Homes’
- ‘War Dogs’
In The Pursuit of Happyness, Chris Gardner (Will Smith) can’t sell the medical device he invested in. Tired of struggling, his wife leaves him, and he loses his apartment. Homeless with his son (Jaden Smith), Chris takes an internship as a stockbroker, hoping to change his luck. But first, he and his young son will have to survive six whole months ...
Dick (Nick Offerman) and Mac (John Carroll Lynch) McDonald open a fast-food burger place and call it McDonalds in The Founder. It does well enough to attract the attention of Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton). What starts as a business partnership ends up in theft – Ray steals their idea, their speedy production system, even the name – and goes on to make ...
Single mother Flor (Paz Vega) and daughter Cristina (Shelbie Bruce) emigrate from Mexico for a better life in America in Spanglish. Flor works for a wealthy family where Cristina is exposed to a culture that Flor isn’t ready to accept or respect. Flor compromises a lot to give her daughter a better life, but there’s still a push-pull between the va...
DJay (Terrence Howard) is a Memphis pimp with a stable of three sex workers, including pregnant and out-of-work Shug (Taraji P. Henson) and Nola (Taryn Manning), who turns tricks out of the back of DJay’s car. Struggling to make ends meet, DJay decides to chase his dream of being a hip-hop emcee. With the help of his stable, he turns out a demo tap...
To get close enough to his father’s killer for revenge, Amsterdam (Leonardo DiCaprio) joins Bill The Butcher’s (Daniel Day-Lewis) gang and works his way up the ladder. Five Points Manhattan is riddled with prostitution, theft, and murder during the early 1860s as the American Civil War rages on. There’s plenty of room for corruption, and opportunit...
In 1983, Korean immigrants the Yi family moves from California to rural Arkansas where patriarch Jacob (Steven Yeun)will own and farm a plot of land. From Korea, America seemed like a promised land, but the reality is much grimmer. In fact, the Yi family’s standard of living is much lower here, and pursuing Jacob’s dream means real sacrifice: half ...
Young couple April (Kate Winslet) and Frank (Leonardo DiCaprio) live in a 1955 suburb in Revolutionary Road. Though they look like the perfect family, they’re deeply unhappy and resentful of each other. April has given up on her acting career, and Frank hates his job. They agree to move to Paris where they can be happier, but a pregnancy and a prom...
Dolemite Is My Name follows Rudy Ray Moore (Eddie Murphy), a struggling rapper and comedian in 1970s Los Angeles. Only when he adopts a crude-talking pimp character named Dolemite does he gain any traction. Inspired by this success, he self-finances a kung-fu Blaxploitation film as a vehicle for Dolemite. He makes the film with an amateur crew on a...
Set in the aftermath of the 2008 housing crash, 99 Homes follows the construction worker and single father Dennis (Andrew Garfield) loses his job, and the ability to pay his mortgage. Real estate broker Rick (Michael Shannon) evicts him and his young son without a second thought. Desperate and living in a seedy motel, Dennis decides to make a deal ...
When David’s (Miles Teller) money-making schemes don’t pan out, he agrees to partner with his friend Efraim (Jonah Hill), a gunrunner who sees a way to exploit the war on terror for profit. Almost effortlessly, they stumble into their first government contract to deal weapons. They get paid, take on more contracts, take bigger risks, and it inevita...
- A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) A Streetcar Named Desire tells the story of Blanche DuBois, a southern belle who leaves her aristocratic background to live with her sister, Stella, and her husband, Stanley.
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020) Starring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman in his final film role, this biographical drama recounts a turbulent recording session with influential blues singer Ma Rainey during 1920s Chicago.
- Of Mice and Men (1992) Working-class men struggled in the 20th century, but when it came to the American ideal, no one dreamed bigger. Of Mice and Men focuses on two farm workers, George and the intellectually disabled Lennie, who chase the dream of one day buying their own land.
- The Great Gatsby (2013) The Great Gatsby explores the consequences of materialism that derives from the pursuit of the American Dream and is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous book, which many consider to be 'the great American novel.'
Feb 20, 2024 · From rags to riches stories to tales of redemption and self-discovery, American Dream movies have captured the hearts and minds of audiences around the world. Here is a list of some of the most iconic American Dream movies, along with 13 song examples that perfectly capture the spirit of each film: 1.
Aug 6, 2014 · Here are the top 10 films that redefined the American Dream: 10. Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles’ iconic film is as tied to the American mythos as the Dream itself. The story of a self-made man who becomes fabulously wealthy at the expense of his own happiness is one of the most frequently emulated stories in American cinema.
