The film has the appeal of both history and American myth.

It's a movie that plays with, and on, some of our favorite American myths.

Perhaps the American myth of virtue and hard work rewarded is not quite dead.

They are particularly strong in their examination of the American myth that every family deserves to own a home.

There is in that an American myth, and he lived it.

The selection process also calls attention to the potency of a particular American myth.

The nation is one whopper away from yet another glorious American myth.

Almost all of them go about their lives with a sense of a gap between American myth and reality.

The film is about the realities of American myths.

The song virtually shouts the American myth of redemption through moving on.