Over the Hedge is a nice animation movie that came out somewhere in 2006.

In the movie a furry raccoon (RJ) gets in trouble by trying to steal food from a [zoo] bear. What gets RJ in trouble is not his ability to actually sneak around and steal the food but his greed. To be more specific he wants a can/box of Spuddies (chips) that the bear has.
[This reflects the way we see what we’ve got. It also reflects the greedy nature of humans]
Being caught and facing the grim consequences of his actions RJ  devises a plan to gather all the stuff that he lost. (he puts the food on a carriage which rolls over into the street and gets ran over by a truck - the bear wakes up and gives him 1 week to return all his food or else…)
He uses an usual family of wood creatures to steal the food from another place - the human houses that replaced almost half of the forest in which they lived.
[Do not take responsibility for your actions. Find someone that can solve your problems for you]
In the end RJ realizes that he cares more about his new “family” that it cares about anything else. The others finally accept him although the plan to use him is revealed and the bear gets in trouble trying to hunt him down.
[It’s okay to be an irresponsible person if in the end you are really sorry and you will be forgiven for sure. Doesn’t matter that some one else has to pay your dues]
Apart from this the film is a pleasure to watch and the quality of the animation is very good.
So now to recap (in case you didn’t realize it I used the movie to extract some false conclusions which I will use further in defining the dream):
- we never are really happy with what we’ve got and we are by design greedy
- we are willing to do some nasty things to get the things we want
- we are not willing to take the responsibility for our actions
- we think that if in the end things turn out bad it’s enough to say we’re sorry and things will work out for themselves.
This brings us back to the biological impossibility of the American Dream. Take the behavioral pattern of our little RJ and apply it on a large scale and suddenly the today’s economic situation doesn’t seem so absurd.
In the end if you want to remember a funny thing about the movie, remember this quote:  ”Cause with a Spuddie, enough just isn’t enough”