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May 15, 2024 · There Will Be Blood. The Dream: In Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 period drama, adapted from Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel Oil!, Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) is an oilman during Southern California’s late 19th century oil boom. His singular goal is to generate as much personal wealth and power as possible.
Jul 5, 2017 · The star system is best represented on screen in the 1937 version of A Star is Born. It shows the public’s naive view of Hollywood through the protagonist, Esther’s dreams of becoming a star ...
- ‘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.'
- Fight Club (1999) 3.5 out of 4 stars. From David Fincher, starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier. Rated R. Fight Club follows the life of an unnamed narrator (Edward Norton) who is dissatisfied with his white-collar job.
- American Beauty (1999) 3.4 out of 4 stars. From Sam Mendes, starring Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley. Rated R. American Beauty is a poignant drama directed by Sam Mendes that follows Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey) as he navigates his mid-life crisis.
- The Truman Show (1998) 3.3 out of 4 stars. From Peter Weir, starring Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Noah Emmerich. Rated PG. The Truman Show is a 1998 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol.
- Into the Wild (2007) 3.2 out of 4 stars. From Sean Penn, starring Emile Hirsch, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Keener, Marcia Gay Harden. Rated R. "Into the Wild" is a 2007 film directed by Sean Penn based on the 1996 non-fiction book of the same name by Jon Krakauer.
Jan 11, 2023 · Gangs of New York (2002) Five Points is a notorious part of old New York. It is ruled by gangs and the streets are often the site of bloody clashes between natives and newcomers. The most powerful are the Irish immigrants, the Dead Rabbits, led by the charismatic leader Priest Vallon (Liam Neeson). In a bloody street battle, the notorious ...
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Jul 6, 2017 · The Godfather 1 and 2. Many of the great films in film history detail the journey for the American Dream. The Godfather focuses on the life story of not just Michael Corleone, who must deal with ...
