Abstract
When I try to imagine a typical American family, the first image which comes to mind is that of a perfect family with beautiful (their teeth have to shine) and rich parents and beautiful and healthy children, who live happily in a small house somewhere in the countryside in a small village. A kind of Coca Cola or Hollywood chewing gum family, a part of the American dream. The studied films: Citizen Kane of O. Wells All about Eve of J. Mankiewicks,Hitchcock's Rear Window and Claughton's The Night of the Hunter show a completely different image of the American family and they criticize some American values. In these films couples are unmarried, divorced, children are often seen as a burden instead of a source of joy, men are macho, women naïve and submitted, there is almost any happy end. They reveal undoubtly a more contrasted and probably real image of the United States.
