Shouldn't it be "American Dreamzzzzz?"

If you’re like me, you probably thought the spelling of “American Dreamz” with a “z” at the end was either a typo by a retarded marketing executive that has become too embarassing/expensive to fix or else a vain attempt by writer/director Chris WeitZ to brand all of his films.

But at a recent session with New York reporters, WeitZ finally revealed the answer behind his film’s idiosyncratic spelling:

“In cartoons, when someone is sleeping, they’ll have a ‘Z-z-z-z’ in a bubble and so the theme of this was whether our dreams actually make us narcotized to reality,” Weitz told reporters in New York recently.

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