The Pursuit of Happyness ( 2007)
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Directed by
Gabriele
Muccino
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Authentic U.S. Region 1
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Genre:
Biography
Drama
Runtime:
117 min
Cast of Characters
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Will Smith |
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Chris Gardner |
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Jaden Smith |
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Christopher (as Jaden Christopher
Syre Smith) |
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Thandie Newton |
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Linda |
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Brian Howe |
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Jay Twistle |
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James Karen |
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Martin Frohm |
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Dan
Castellaneta |
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Alan Frakesh |
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Kurt Fuller |
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Walter Ribbon |
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Takayo Fischer |
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Mrs. Chu |
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Kevin West |
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World's Greatest Dad |
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George Cheung |
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Chinese Maintenance Worker (as George
K. Cheung) |
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David Michael
Silverman |
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Doctor at First Hospital |
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Domenic Bove |
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Tim Ribbon |
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Geoff Callan |
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Ferrari Owner |
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Joyful Raven |
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Hippie Girl |
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Scott Klace |
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Tim Brophy |
Plot Outline:
A struggling salesman (Will Smith)
takes custody of his son (Jaden Smith) as he's poised to begin
a life-changing professional endeavor. In 1981,
Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman in little needed
medical bone density scanners while his wife toiled in double
shifts to support the family including their young son,
Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the
desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where
one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career.
Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris
clings to this dream with his son even when the odds become
more daunting by the day. Together, father and son struggle
through homelessness, jail time, tax seizure and the overall
punishing despair in a quest that would make Gardner a
respected millionaire.
Runtime:
117 min
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 Blu-ray
Sound Mix:
DTS Dolby Digital SDDS
Certification:
Australia:M
Italy:T Portugal:M/12
Finland:S USA:PG-13 Sweden:7
Netherlands:6 Canada:PG
Canada:G Argentina:13
Ireland:12A Switzerland:7
UK:12A France:Unrated
Switzerland:7 South Korea:All Hong
Kong:IIA Malaysia:U
Singapore:PG Brazil:Livre
Quotes: [ repeated line] Christopher :
Where are we going?
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 3 wins
& 15 nominations
Comments:
They
just don't make many this good. The audience and I cried,
laughed, cheered and applauded. The climactic scene is as
powerful and cathartic as The Shawshank Redemption's golden
moment. Will Smith is terrific, his son Jaden is just perfect,
and Thandie Newton puts in a convincing supporting act. The
movie's 1980s San Francisco is absorbing and authentic without
stealing the show. Best of all, if you are a thinker, this movie
will challenge your visions of family, business and society. On
one hand, the film reinforces the great American myth of the
self-made man and equal opportunity. Myths are not necessarily
false simply for being myths--we can make some of them true by
choice, and our belief in this myth still helps make America
great. Free-market capitalism is not the cure to all ills--surely
it is the source of many ills--but it does open social doors that
nothing else can even budge. On the other hand, if you can leave
this movie without a burning indignation that any American child
of any race should have to struggle just to have a place to
sleep, you must be cynical indeed. This movie doesn't get on a
soapbox, not even for a second--it just tells a real-life story
that owns you before you know it. I hope a few of us will let our
motivations own us for years instead of hours after the movie's
over.
