Who you gonna call?

Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! You've never been out of college! You don't know what it's like out there! I've worked in the private sector. They expect results.

The American's list of the 10 Best Business Movies must have been tough to put together, for the movies had to at least mostly meet these qualifications:

(1) a great movie, (2) a relatively realistic picture of business, and (3) an attitude not openly hostile to capitalism as we know and love it.

That's as tough as it sounds, but the list they came up with is pretty good. It does have, however, one seriously glaring omission--the original Ghostbusters. What? You think I'm crazy? How about this: it's a movie about three brilliant but offbeat guys who can't find support in academia, so they take out a loan and enter the private sector to perform a valuable, unique service. Immediately after doing so, they get hassled by government environmental regulators who push the political leadership to squash their business, but eventually they go on to best the bureaucrat and save New York--and without making concessions in their practices. How's that for a story of capitalist success? And don't even try to tell me it's not a great movie.

Addendum: Also, the movie deserves mention just for this quote, which one could argue describes an awful lot of work in Washington:

Janine Melnitz: Do you believe in UFOs, astral projections, mental telepathy, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster and the theory of Atlantis?
Winston Zeddemore: Ah, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say.