In every American movie, the hero or heroine is applauded by a crowd in the final redemption scene.
The hero and heroine always kiss in public places, and are spontaneously applauded by the crowd.
The pinnacle of success in American movies is the appearance on the cover of major newsmagazines. This is also redemptive.
No starring woman in American movies ever works at a real job, or if she has a job she has infinite free time (Erin Brockovich is an interesting attempt to break free from this, but she spends O time at the office, and is basically insulting to all the people who work).
Everyone who dies in a hospital in an American movie dies beautifully, even if they have things in their noses.
Even supposedly hard hitting "sophisticated" movies like Traffic have pathetic redemptive endings, where the girl gets applauded, the father sees the error of his ways in front of the American people (!), the detective sits at a baseball game musing on life, and a new bug is placed in the home of the evil people. Black people and the Mexicans, except the token good guys sprinkled around, are dark seething masses of poverty and evil. And this is in 2001!!

yours, Peter T.