The Pursuit of Happyness
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### Details

Director: | Gabriele Muccino
Writer: | Steve Conrad, Steven Conrad
Producer: | Amy Baer, David Alper, Will Smith, Steve Tisch
Theatrical: | 2006
Rated: | PG-13
Studio: | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Genre: | Drama, Biography
Duration: | 1 hr 57 mins

Languages: | English
Subtitles: | Spanish
Sound: | FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1
Aspect Ratio: | Widescreen 2.40:1 Color (Anamorphic)
Picture Format: | Widescreen
Discs: | 1
Region: | Region 1
Release: | Jan 2006

#### Features

Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream
Father and Son: On Screen and Off
The Man Behind the Movie: A Conversation with Chris Gardner
Inside the Rubiks Cube
"I Can" Song
Director's Commentary by Gabriele Muccino

### Summary

Chris Gardener (Will Smith) is a salesman who has invested all his and his wife’s money in an obsolete piece of medical equipment. Unable to sell them, the Gardener family is left to live in poverty. One day, Chris bumps into a stockbroker who is living the good life high on the hog. Chris asks how he could get to be like that, and is told to try for an internship as a stockbroker. With a head full of dreams Chris takes the internship, which he soon discovers is unpaid. His wife, unable to cope with this new job for no money, leaves Chris and their son, Christopher (Jaden Smith). Despite no money, and often no place to sleep at night, Chris is determined to get the only stockbroker position offered after the internship is up. But there is no quarantine he’ll be able to beat out the many other interns who are vying for the same position.

### Credits

Will Smith | ... | Chris Gardner
Jaden Smith | ... | Christopher
Thandie Newton | ... | Linda
Brian Howe | ... | Jay Twistle
James Karen | ... | Martin Frohm
Dan Castellaneta | ... | Alan Frakesh
Jaden Christopher Syre Smith | ... |