The American Dream
No one would have bet on Jérémy, stuck behind the counter of a video store, or on Bouna, who cleans airports. With no money, no connections, and painfully poor English, who could have predicted they’d one day become big-name agents in the NBA? What they lack in experience, they will make up for in audacity, while remaining true to their one credo, doing business with a human touch. Scouting raw talent while… From TMDB
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52 of 52 · most liked firstMy fifteen-year-old son has lately been talking about making a film about the death of the American Dream. This has led to some interesting discussions about what The American Dream really is; whether it’s already dead; still alive, on life support, or has morphed into something
neutral · AI labelView post →In just the last few years, I keep seeing the right using the phrase "the American dream" as shorthand for white supremacy and privilege. As if little Bobby needs to grow up not importing any goods and never having to see a Black superhero in a movie, and that'll be the American Dream. It's so sad
neutral · AI labelView post →NO DOWN PAYMENT (Martin Ritt, 1957). Bar the ending, which lacks any degree of subtlety, this is an excellent drama about the hollowness and the corrosive nature of the American Dream. Focusing on the marital tensions of four young couples living on a new suburban estate, >> #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →In the first as sociologist I argue that the Coyote v Road Runner cartoons were a critique of capitalism on how unattainable the American Dream is. I show that Spielberg uses the same imagery in his overlooked film Sugarland Express as commentary on road movies 📽️The link:
neutral · AI labelView post →One of the reasons that I love film noir is that - beyond the tropes (which are parodied all the time) - we see the flip side of the American Dream. And even if it isn't stated explicitly, these films do fill in the "gaps" missing from many history books. (rant over) 🧐 #TCMParty #TheBreakingPoint
neutral · AI labelView post →Tío Domingo plays evil just a little too well & they definitely sanitized the character. The movie was fun but the American Dream miniseries is always going to be number one for me.
neutral · AI labelView post →A charmingly offbeat road movie and a prickly satire on the emptiness of the American Dream, I think if this were more easily available it absolutely would've been a much bigger cult classic than it is.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching “Requiem for the American Dream” and Noam Chomsky has prescient words for us all 2015 movie describing project2025 m.imdb.com/title/tt3270...
neutral · AI labelView post →But of course, the American Dream turned out to be but mere illusion. In the case of this movie, they hadn't managed to escape their problems; they had merely switched scenery, and nothing else. There ARE cats in America, and the streets are NOT made of cheese.
neutral · AI labelView post →Brady Corbet's THE BRUTALIST is a great, great film. A complex, humane, surprising journey & dissection of the American Dream. Adrien Brody, Guy Pierce & Felicity Jones lead an incredible cast. Yes, it's long, yes, it has over-sized ambitions (like its lead character), but it's indelible.
neutral · AI labelView post →Just finished The Great Gatsby. Is the American Dream a lie? Is Tom Buchanan a fascist? And does the book beat the DiCaprio film? My full review is up now 📚🟢 youtu.be/Ka1Cr9I3cqU?... #Booksky #Books #Filmsky
neutral · AI labelView post →Death & Taxes is streaming! The story of wealth, inequality and the American Dream told though one man's obsession with the estate tax. "The best film about taxes ever!" (Alissa Quart) kinema.com/films/death-... #taxes
neutral · AI labelView post →The #Watergate Caper: #RichardNixon and the Death of the American Dream #FilmReview – political scandal, 70s style #ShaneOSullivan’s #documentary weaves archive clips and snippets from films old and new to draw out the highlights of the crisis that rocked the US www.theguardian.com/film/2026/se...
neutral · AI labelView post →The Company Men [69] is a $4 VOD: www.metacritic.com/movie/the-co... #11pmspecial "Films have punctured The American Dream before, but rarely so devastatingly as The Company Men does." - Richard Mowe, Boxoffice Magazine
neutral · AI labelView post →I composed the score for Abby's film "The American Dream and Other Fairytales." She is the real deal.
neutral · AI labelView post →For the upcoming Coyote v. ACME, I used my perspective in sociology to write about how the classic cartoons were a critique of capitalism on how unattainable the American Dream is. I argue that Spielberg uses the same imagery in his overlooked film Sugarland Express as commentary on road movies 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →I finally saw Citizen Kane. Such a powerful and well crafted movie. A story of how a man had it all with the American dream but his fatal flaws and corruption end up losing it all. The make up, cinematography and lighting, editing techniques and the overall idea of the American Dream just excel.
neutral · AI labelView post →the 'American Dream' is a plot desc for a Tom Cruise movie. Isn't it?
neutral · AI labelView post →US #13: "The Testament of Ann Lee" A pulsing, beating heart of a movie, the rhythms of faith stirring through the film itself. A meditation on belief, sublimation and the American Dream, with an incredible performance from Amanda Seyfried. A great companion to "The Brutalist."
neutral · AI labelView post →"The American Dream is dead." ~ Aziz Ansari in his excellent movie 'Good Fortune'. A pro-union movie streaming on Amazon Prime...go figure.
neutral · AI labelView post →Might as well call this movie “The Death of the American Dream”
neutral · AI labelView post →🕊️ $5000 🤨 The American Dream Slouching towards Armageddon The Ecocidal History of the U.S. Military EARTH'S GREATEST ENEMY WATCH FULL FILM AT earthsgreatestenemy.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZqL...
neutral · AI labelView post →And since he was replacing the movie logo with the American Dream one, I decided I’d contribute with the Fanzone page.
neutral · AI labelView post →And went on Shark Tank! www.realityblurred.com/realitytv/20... Ah, the American Dream: creating a product that will allow people to film their neighbors as they take walks, and post videos to NextDoor about how children crossing through their yards must be criminals!
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh!! And the guy who plays Joe Jackson from the American Dream movie was there too!
neutral · AI labelView post →10 Movies About America: The Godfather (1972) Our trip tends, perhaps appropriately, in a film that is not just a crime story but a depiction of the curdling of the American Dream. A descent from scratching for a piece of the pie to murdering each other for scraps. #Filmsky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →How many decades has the propaganda been that Americans are special? So is it surprising that the ignorant cling onto that? They have to believe it or else they aren't part of the American Dream, they're the trailer trash out of a Clint Eastwood movie. MAGA plays on that grievance.
neutral · AI labelView post →Set aside the sad partisan politics & prejudice marring US 250th anniversary celebrations & focus instead on upbeat positivity of the American Dream in Tom Brook’s Talking Movies on BBC highlighting iconic American movies & what they reveal about the great country & psyche of her own people.
neutral · AI labelView post →I like it. There's a better, more serious version of Cocktail peering out from the edges of the movie, and the way the pursuit of the American Dream is depicted in the version we got is still pretty cutting. I'm always telling people it's got a surprising amount of blood.
neutral · AI labelView post →My America 250 Movie Upload Complete =) + June 2026 Review + Supreme Court Decisions + Ready for A New Adventure! My 3rd Movie: A Man Alone & The American Dream 6am Texas Time July 4th, 2026 - Good Morning Machine 634 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwc9...
neutral · AI labelView post →Here’s a sharp one for you: *"Nothing says ‘freedom’ like paying $15 for a gallon of gas, $20 for a movie ticket, and $7 for a sad little avocado toast while your student loans laugh at you from the grave. Welcome to the American Dream, folks—now go hustle."* (278 characters)
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie starring Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver and Miles Teller follows two brothers who pursue the American Dream but get caught in a dangerous scheme
neutral · AI labelView post →NIGHT SWIM was a very dull movie. But it DID manage to get me thinking about ancient sea dragons, the lie of baseball and the American Dream so… I guess it’s not nothing? A bonus post for my paid subscribers - because the really weird stuff is just for y'all! open.substack.com/pub/jrforast...
neutral · AI labelView post →Bummer. An actor I thought personified everything cool about The American Dream is starring in some Ben Shapiro "pro-ICE" movie. It's all just a paycheck.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watch ANALOG, a film set against a backdrop of pre-digital nostalgia in the 90s about an immigrant whose relentless pursuit of success & the American Dream strains his family ties: cineasianfilms.com/shorts/analog/ Submissions are open now through FilmFreeway: filmfreeway.com/CineAsianFilms
neutral · AI labelView post →Hunter S Thompson wrote this about Nixon: he (Nixon) is a "monument to all the rancid genes and broken chromosomes that corrupt the possibilities of the American Dream". The same can be said about big tech and MAGA. Like a horror movie unfolding...
neutral · AI labelView post →My first exposure to Meg Stalter was on a public access television show. So whenever I see her popping up in a movie, TV proper, or nominated for a damn Emmy, for a brief moment it makes me feel like maybe the American Dream is still out there, clinging to life.
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you considered that they might approve of his crimes? America loves a good gangster movie. He’s living the American Dream.
neutral · AI labelView post →Do not know all the details about the Paul Schrader / AI controversy, but do recall the tagline from his great 1978 film ‘Blue Collar’, starring Richard Pryor, Yaphet Kotto, and Harvey Keitel: “The American Dream: When you’re rich, you can buy it. If you’re anything else, you gotta fight for it.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Cinemalaya 2026: "Stagus: Rejected" and how loneliness makes the American Dream easy to sell. #cinemalaya2026 #americandream #filmreview #VahnLeinardPascual #worldcinema #philippinecinema www.themoviebuff.net/2026/08/cine...
neutral · AI labelView post →We're wrapping up our Dark Castle essays with Bee Delores' Deep Cuts look at #HouseOfWax (2005). More than a remake, it's a fascinating reflection on the broken promises of the American Dream and the millennial generation that inherited them. tinyurl.com/yypvy2b8
neutral · AI labelView post →Le Rêve Américain (The American Dream) – Screening on July 24, 25, 27-30! “a deeply engaging human adventure…This is my favorite film of the year so far. A feel-good movie, carried by actors at the peak of their craft…don’t miss it.” (Ciné Revue) mayfairtheatre.ca/movie/le-rev...
neutral · AI labelView post →If you want a fun little heartwarming/sad watch, there's a fun little indie documentary called "Slice Of Life: The American Dream. In Former Pizza Huts." that played at the Milwaukee Film Festival a year or two ago that I enjoyed.
positive · AI labelView post →Brilliant. Just fucking brilliant. Orson Welles was ahead of his time with this story of how hollow the American Dream is, even back then. The performances were outstanding, even compared to now. I'd recommend this to anyone, not just as a film nerd, but as an average enjoyer.
positive · AI labelView post →May 23rd marks the 46th anniversary of the release of Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING. So, I wrote an article for HorrorBuzz where I discuss how the failed promise of the American Dream led to a movie about domestic paranoia and nihilism. Fun stuff! #horror #movies horrorbuzz.com/the-shining-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Seeing Michael in a theater with white in attendance was quite interesting. They were clutching their pearls at the abuse scenes. Girl that was more tame than the American Dream movie lol.
neutral · AI labelView post →Fifty years ago Robert (M.A.S.H.) Altman directed an American masterpiece. Multiple characters, interconnecting story lines, overlapping dialogue and the American Dream examined like an anthropologist. Lily Tomlin was nominated for an Oscar, as was the film itself.
neutral · AI labelView post →This is just like the The Brutalist, but instead of the American Dream gone sour, it's the dream of being an actor and then starring in the Thunderbirds live action movie everyone hated instead.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love the Intermission in this because it splits the movie thematically; The American Dream vs. The Consequences Of Following It.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Brutalist (2024) As the name implies, it's a brutal lens into an immigrant's life and pursuit for the American Dream. The 3.5 hour-long length seems daunting, but the film earns it for its high-quality aspects. Great movie, but keep in mind that it's pretty graphic if you're gonna watch it.
neutral · AI labelView post →Adrien Brody Chases The American Dream In The Brutalist New UK Trailer @universaluk.bsky.social #TheBrutalist #adrienbrody > wp.me/p1L8ZS-13uW
neutral · AI labelView post →#Review: Debate Baldwin Vs Buckley ★★★★ "This is a riveting, timely piece of work with superb performances, in a deceptively simple format. It’s a call to turn away from a world set alight by hatred." #theatre #fringetheatre #verbatimtheatre #TheAmericanDream https://everything-theatre.co.uk/2023/03/review-debate-baldwin-vs-buckley-stone-nest/
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