I've spent the last 20 years teaching journalism and writing classes at a selective public university, and the majority of my (bright) students put me in mind of Jack Nicholson's line to Tom Cruise in "A Few Good Men": "You can't handle the truth!"
"We watch business movies with our own goals in mind, " says Jack Boozer , an associate professor at Georgia State University and author of Career Movies: American Business and the Success Mystique (University of Texas Press, 2002).