Two recent popular entertainments, "Margin Call" (Barnum, Dodson, Jenckes, Moosa, Quinto & Chandor, 2011) and "Boss" (Safinia, 2011), depict powerful and successful groups of bosses confronting sudden, extreme threats. They are forced to react quickly and sacrifice important values to achieve survival of their organizations. In these emergencies, caused by their own failures, handled with ruthless efficiency, there are no characters exemplifying the upward mobility offered by the American Dream, as conveyed by the children's movie "Jack and the Beanstalk" (DePew, Goupil & Tunnicliffe, 2010). The pop culture advertisement of "the dream," which was so common in American movies, is not presented as part of such grim stories.