The Pursuit of Happyness movie

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional endeavor.

The Pursuit of Happyness is an Academy Award-nominated 2006 drama film produced by Overbrook Entertainment, Escape Artist, and Relativity Media, in association with and released by Columbia Pictures on December 15, 2006. While it is based on the true story of Christopher Gardner, a family man struggling to make ends meet, the film takes some liberties with Gardners actual story. Starring Will Smith as Chris Gardner and Smiths real-life son Jaden Christopher Syre Smith as Gardners son Christopher, The Pursuit of Happyness follows Gardners struggles to break into the stock brokerage business as an intern, despite a rocky financial situation. The film was directed by Gabriele Muccino, an Italian director making his English-language directorial debut.PlotSet in San Francisco in 1981, the film centers around Chris Gardner (Will Smith), a 30-year old, clever, yet unsuccessful, salesman of expensive bone-density scanners.

Chris invested most of his and his girlfriends money into the scanners, which he eventually finds extremely difficult to sell (and difficult to keep from being stolen by hippies and bums). He refers to this period of his life as "Being Stupid," in that he wrongly trusted a hippie with watching one of them while going for a job interview. Despite Christophers valiant attempts to help keep the family afloat, he is faltering; the rent on their apartment is far past due, and his car is towed after Chris defaults on paying over a dozen parking tickets. His girlfriend Linda (Thandie Newton) is unhappy and buckling under the constant strain of financial pressure, as her paychecks are the familys primary source of income. The only thing keeping the couples relationship together is their five-year-old son Christopher (Jaden Smith).Unwilling to be separated from his son, Chris picks Christopher up from his daycare in Chinatown before Linda can. Chris complains about a sign outside the daycare center misspelling "happiness" as "happyness", hence the spelling of the films title.

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The Pursuit of Happyness Cast

• Brian Howe
• Dan Castellaneta
• David Michael Silverman
• Domenic Bove
• Geoff Callan
• George Cheung
• Jaden Smith
• James Karen
• Joyful Raven
• Kevin West
• Kurt Fuller
• Scott Klace
• Takayo Fischer
• Thandie Newton