The Pursuit of Happyness

Inspirational and Touching

The Story:

Will Smith stars in the inspirational true story of Chris Gardner, a San Francisco salesman who’s struggling to make ends meet. When his girlfriend Linda (Thandie Newton) walks out, Chris is left to raise their 5-year-old son Christopher (Jaden Smith) on his own. Chris’ determination finally pays off when he lands an unpaid internship in a brutally competitive stockbroker-training program, where only one in twenty interns will make the cut.

But without a salary, Chris and his son are evicted from their apartment and are forced to sleep on the street, in homeless shelters and even behind the locked doors of a metro station bathroom. With self- confidence and the love and trust of his son, Chris Gardner rises above his obstacles to become a Wall Street legend.

Release Date: December 15, 2006 (US)

Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Directed by: Gabriele Muccino (Remember Me, My Love; Seven Pounds)

Starring: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton

Budget: $55,000,000

Gross Revenue: $307,077,295

Review:

I don’t believe why I wait so long to watch this movie, yup I just saw it recently on DVD. At first I was thought, Will Smith plays in drama? But now, after watched this movie, and also other Will Smith movie’s, Seven Pounds, I started to think that he can matched Denzel Washington acting in no time.

What I like most from this movie is, it so realistic that you can feel Chris Gardner situation can happens to yourself. The fact is, this movie was based from a true story. Watching someone crawl from bottomless pit to become a multi billionaire by doing hardwork and never give up just set an example to us to do something better for our lives.

One minus from my opinion is, Chris Gardner character seems to be too heroic typical, we almost can’t see his dark side. While the big hole from the story was why Chris Gardner can be elected as associate in Wall Street business over other candidates that more educated and experienced in the job. The story too much focused on his daily struggling of finding shelter and food, rather than give balance on his action as a job trainee.

Overall, the both Smiths gave a brilliant and natural acting for this movie. Their chemistry was well built, because they’re also father and son in real life.


This is a movie about someone who’s having a financial problem. If you’re having the same problem, you might want to get bad credit remortgages.


My Rating: A-

IMDb user rating: 7.8/10

Rotten Tomatoes meter: 66%

Metacritic: 64/100

Yahoo! critics: B-

Yahoo! users: B+

Your Ratings: (1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)
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