The American Dream (1989 film) (Napoleon's World)

The American Dream is a 1989 crime epic directed by George Deacon and written by Alan Flynn, and is the last part of the Story of America trilogy, serving as a sequel to Coming to America (1982) and An American's Story (1986. The film begins in 1969 and follows the adult lives of Alphonse Scariane's sons Vincent (Andy Garcia) and Paulie (Ray Liotta) in the 1970's through the mid 1980's, focusing on their moving of the family business from the Irish and Russian-dominated New York of the late 1960's to Las Vegas, where they become involved in the drug trade and the hedonistic culture of the Seventies and suffer the consequences in the 1980's. The film also starred Johnny Depp, Alec Baldwin, Curt Ellersby, Dustin Hoffman, Moira Lang, Joe Pesci, Al Davis, Willem Dafoe, Carl Hughes, Jane Seymour, Lucille Owen, and Beth Sears.

The American Dream was critically lauded and was an enormous financial success, but in a much-maligned move failed to earn Best Picture (unlike its predecessors), although Deacon and Flynn both earned Oscars again, and Garcia won the Oscar for Best Actor. It was the last film written by the legendary Flynn, who passed away in June of 1990 after a fifty-year career in Hollywood.