In a time of Occupy Wall Street protest and the Bernie Maddoff investment scandal the idea of Americans loosing their life savings to investment fraud is not far from the peoples’ imagination. Scandals like these can happen in a moment but the effects are catastrophic—but only for the working class. Typically, the businessman hires a team of experienced lawyers, serves no jail time and retires wealthy. On the other hand, the average person must work even harder to make ends meet. The movie “Tower Heist” accurately depicts the inequality between the rich and poor in terms of legalities and financial frauds.

Alan Alda plays the rich businessman, Arthur Saw, who lives at the Tower Heist, the most expensive and secure penthouse in New York City. The director Brett Ratner introduces Shaw swimming in his private pool, which has the image of a dollar bill engraved in the pool floor. He is clearly an affluent gentleman and it is no coincidence that the movie’s antagonist is also wearing red swimming trunks. The director then shifts to a shabby apartment in Astoria, Queens where John, played by Ben Stiller, is getting ready to leave for his job as manager at the Tower Heist. John, on the other hand, is wearing a white button down shirt and the grey hairs along his temples clearly show that he is a hardworking and honest individual.