The Pursuit of Happyness

Director: Gabriele Muccino
Cast: Will Smith, Jaden Smith & Thandie Newton

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Christopher Paul Gardner (born February 9, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a self-made millionaire, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and philanthropist.
--Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The movie is inspired by a book with the same name authored by Chris himself and is about
his life and his struggle(in early 1980's) with marital life, career and homelessness while raising
his toddler son. As it happenes most of the times,the movie adaptation of a book
tends to miss out on some vital aspects of the story on various pretexts, here also the movie
doesn't refer at all (sparring a dialogue when he refer's about not knowing his father)
to Chris's life before his marriage.

First close up shot of Chris Gardner(Will Smith) drops a hint about the tone of the
movie followed shortly by, a beautifully sequence( in which he feels quite left out on seeing a crowd of happy passerby's), that makes the tone more apparent. Of all the actors the one
that stood out for me was cute li'l Christopher, who apart from acting beautifully made audience
have their share of laughter. Will did his job good enough to be nomitated for the
Best Actor's Award at the Oscars. The movie picks up slowly and continues to do so till the very end with getting Painfully Slow for a good 10 minutes. The film has some intermittent
beautiful and touching scenes. Particulary touchy one's being "The one in which Chris and his son spend there night in a restroom","when there reach a Flophouse only to find a long queue"
and "being thrown out of the motel".

The soapy background score, witty yet meaningful dialogues and nice direction work together
to make the movie worth watching.

Memorable Dialogue's:

"You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can't do it. You want something? Go get it. Period"

Martin Frohm: What would you say if man walked in here with no shirt, and I hired him? What would you say?
Christopher Gardner: He must have had on some really nice pants.

"Maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it no matter what."

Trivia:
The spelling of happiness came from the daycare center Gardner attended as a child, where the word was misspelled with a “y”.
The expression "pursuit of happiness" was coined by Dr. Samuel Johnson in his 1759 novel Rasselas.
"Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" is one of the most famous phrases in the United States Declaration of Independence.

My Rating: 3.75
Imdb Rating:7.4