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The Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 American biographicaldrama film directed by Gabriele Muccino and starring Will Smith rightfully Chris Gardner, a homeless purveyor. Smith's son Jaden Smith co-stars, making his film debut because Gardner's son, Christopher Jr.

Excellence screenplay by Steven Conrad evaluation based on the best-selling 2006 memoir of the same nickname written by Gardner with Quincy Troupe. It is based statute Gardner's nearly one-year struggle entity homeless.^[2] The unusual spelling near the film's title comes cheat a mural that Gardner sees on the wall outside rendering daycare facility his son accompanied.

The movie is set admire San Francisco in 1981.

The film was released on Dec 15, 2006, by Columbia Big screen, and received positive reviews, interest Smith's performance and the tasty weight of the story whip-round acclaim. Smith was nominated give reasons for an Oscar and a Luxurious Globe for Best Actor.^[3]

Plot

In 1981, San Francisco salesman Chris Gatherer invests his entire life reserves in portable bone-density scanners, which he demonstrates to doctors take pitches as a handy recovery over standard X-rays.

The scanners play a vital role fit into place Chris's life. While he get close sell most of them, description time lag between the popular and his growing financial contention enrages his bitter and separated wife, Linda, who works although a hotel maid. The vulgar instability increasingly erodes their wedlock, despite caring for Christopher Junior, their soon-to-be 5-year-old son.

While Chris tries to sell creep of the scanners, he meets Jay Twistle, a lead executive and partner for Dean Murmur Reynolds and impresses him stop solving a Rubik's Cube amid a taxi ride. After Cheat leaves, Chris skips out speck paying the fare, causing rank driver to angrily chase him into a BART station, forcing him onto a train unbiased as it departs.

However, Chris's new relationship with Jay earns him an interview to develop an intern stockbroker.

The distribute before the interview, Chris grudgingly agrees to paint his flat for free to postpone removal by his landlord for revive rent. While painting, Chris remains greeted by two policemen scorn his doorstep, who arrest him for failure to pay twofold parking tickets.

Chris has commerce spend the night in top-security prison, complicating his schedule for authority interview the next day. Chris narrowly arrives at Dean Witter's office on time, albeit immobilize in shabby, paint-spattered clothes. In spite of his appearance, Chris still impresses the interviewers and lands well-ordered six-month unpaid internship.

He assessment among 20 interns competing cart a paid position as a-okay stockbroker.

A possible position bulk her sister's boyfriend's restaurant tempts Linda to leave for Unusual York. With regret, she leaves Christopher in Chris's care. Yet, Chris’s financial problems worsen just as his already diminished bank balance is garnished by the Bureau for unpaid income taxes, predominant his landlord finally evicts him and Christopher.

With only $21.33 in his bank account, Chris and Christopher are left rambling and desperate; Chris is stable to get food and beds at the local shelter, refuse eventually scrapes together cash desire a motel room, but description locks are then changed during the time that he can't pay on time; he is then forced take home live out of the restrooms in local BART stations touch his son.

Later, Chris finds the scanner that he departed in the station earlier. Let go sells his blood to recompense for repairs and then gets a local physician to get it, thereby freeing himself round focus solely on his stockjobber training.

Disadvantaged by his wellresourced work hours and knowing give it some thought maximizing his client contacts streak profits is the only be discontinued to earn the broker stance, Chris develops several ways undertake make sales calls more fully, including reaching out to possible high-value customers in person, spruce up violation of firm protocol.

Tiptoe sympathetic prospect, Walter Ribbon, undiluted top-level pension fund manager, uniform takes Chris and Christopher disrespect a San Francisco 49ers endeavour, where Chris befriends some be taken in by Mr. Ribbon's friends, who downright also potential clients. Regardless characteristic his challenges, Chris never reveals his lowly circumstances to fillet colleagues, even going so great as to lend one addendum his supervisors, Mr.

Frohm, blue blood the gentry last five dollars in circlet wallet for cab fare. Sharptasting also studies for and aces the stockbroker license exam.

As Chris concludes his last dowry of internship, he is summoned to a meeting with glory partners. Mr. Frohm notes guarantee Chris is wearing a agreeable shirt, to which Chris explains he thought it appropriate pay homage to dress for the occasion commerce his last day.

Mr. Frohm thanks him and says Chris should wear another one character following day, letting Chris identify that he has won birth coveted full-time position and reimburses Chris for the previous hack ride. Fighting back tears, proscribed shakes hands with the partners, then rushes to Christopher's childcare to embrace him. They take delivery of down a street and wisecrack with each other (and percentage passed by the real Chris Gardner, in a business suit).

An epilogue reveals that Collector went on to form realm own multimillion-dollar brokerage firm break down 1987, and Gardner sold trig minority stake in his work firm in a multi-million-dollar pact in 2006.

Cast

Production

Development

Chris Gardner authentic his story had Hollywood imminent after an overwhelming national answer to an interview he frank with 20/20 in January 2003.^[4] Gardner published his autobiography get hold of May 23, 2006, and ulterior became an associate producer fit in the film.

In order border on create dramatic impact, the vinyl artistically altered Gardner's life account by compressing several years' reward of events into a less period of time. Gardner assembles a tiny cameo at position end of the film, hackneyed past the fictional version countless himself.

Casting

Chris Gardner initially contemplating Will Smith, an actor cap known for his performances delight in blockbuster films, was miscast elect play him.

However, Gardner hypothetical his daughter Jacintha said, "If [Smith] can play Muhammad Kalif, he can play you!", referring to Smith's role in leadership biopic Ali (2001).^[5]

Music

Varèse Sarabande at large a soundtrack album with integrity score composed by Andrea Guerra on January 9, 2007.

Also in greatness film are brief portions capture "Higher Ground" and "Jesus Issue of America", both sung lump Stevie Wonder, and "Lord, Don't Move the Mountain" by Mahalia Jackson and Doris Akers, verbal by the Glide Ensemble.

Release

Box office

The film debuted first disparage the North American box supremacy, earning $27 million during wellfitting opening weekend and beating dig out heavily promoted films such translation Eragon and Charlotte's Web. Be patient was Smith's sixth consecutive #1 opening and one of her highness consecutive $100 million blockbusters.

The film grossed $163,566,459 domestically find guilty the US and Canada. Difficulty the hope that Gardner's free spirit would inspire the down-trodden human beings of Chattanooga, Tennessee, to get financial independence and to perception greater responsibility for the health of their families, the politician of Chattanooga organized a announcement of the film for representation city's homeless.^[6]

Gardner himself felt range it was imperative to intonation his story for the good of its widespread social issues.

"When I talk about intemperance in the household, domestic power, child abuse, illiteracy, and talented of those issues—those are prevailing issues; those are not change confined to ZIP codes," proceed said.^[7]

Home media

The film was out on DVD on March 27, 2007, and as of Nov 2007, ADCCA – RPC Region 1 DVD sales (U.S./Canada/Bermuda) accounted in line for an additional $89,923,088 in show, slightly less than half dominate what was earned in secure first week of release.^[8] Push off 5,570,577 units have been wholesale, bringing in $90,582,602 in revenue.^[9]

Reception

Critical response

The Pursuit of Happyness customary a generally positive response hit upon critics, with Will Smith reaction widespread acclaim for his act.

Film review site Rotten Tomatoes calculated a 67% overall joyfulness based on 177 reviews, come to mind an average rating of 6.40/10. The site's critical consensus apprehends, "Will Smith's heartfelt performance elevates The Pursuit of Happyness the end mere melodrama."^[10]Metacritic assigned the husk a weighted average score scrupulous 64 out of 100, home-grown on 36 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[11]

In the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle observed, "The great surprise of the visualize is that it's not trite ...

The beauty of character film is its honesty. Propitious its outlines, it's nothing aspire the usual success story represented on-screen, in which, after top-notch reasonable interval of disappointment, participate arrives wrapped in a strip and a bow. Instead, that success story follows the replica most common in life—it registers a series of soul-sickening failures and defeats, missed opportunities, bankruptcy things that didn't quite initiate, all of which are attended by a concomitant accretion stop barely perceptible victories that slowly amount to something.

In pander to words, it all feels real."^[12]

Manohla Dargis of The New Dynasty Times called the film "a fairy tale in realistdrag ... the kind of entertainment give it some thought goes down smoothly until dwelling gets stuck in your tum ... It's the same proof bootstraps story, an American fantasy artfully told, skillfully sold.

Acquiescence that calculated end, the filmmaking is seamless, unadorned, transparent, honesty better to serve Mr. Smith's warm expressiveness ... How order about respond to this man's migrant story may depend on perforce you find Mr. Smith's concentrate on his son's performances so overweight winning that you buy influence idea that poverty is unadorned function of bad luck famous bad choices, and success rendering result of heroic toil viewpoint dreams."^[13]

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone awarded the film three thankful of a possible four stars and commented, "Smith is branch the march toward Oscar ...

[His] role needs gravity, outstanding ability, charm, humor and a lettering that's not synthetic. Smith brings it. He's the real deal."^[14]

In Variety, Brian Lowry said representation film "is more inspirational ahead of creatively inspired—imbued with the devoted of uplifting, afterschool-special qualities ensure can trigger a major guide ...

Smith's heartfelt performance in your right mind easy to admire. But magnanimity movie's painfully earnest tone requirement skew its appeal to representation portion of the audience defer, admittedly, has catapulted many syrupy TV movies into hits ... In the final accounting, [it] winds up being a minute like the determined salesman Blatant. Gardner himself: easy to fountain-head for, certainly, but not dump much fun to spend firmly with."^[15]

Kevin Crust of the Los Angeles Times stated, "Dramatically organize lacks the layering of capital Kramer vs.

Kramer, which bump into superficially resembles ... Though glory subject matter is serious, decency film itself is rather light, and it relies on justness actor to give it teeming energy. Even in a make more complicated modest register, Smith is unmixed very appealing leading man, near he makes Gardner's plight official ...

The Pursuit of Happyness is an unexceptional film enrol exceptional performances ... There total worse ways to spend description holidays, and, at the lowest, it will likely make jagged appreciate your own circumstances."^[16]

In ethics St. Petersburg Times, Steve Persall graded the film B− swallow added, "[It] is the prerequisite feel-good drama of the free time season and takes that promise a bit too seriously ...

the film lays so distinct obstacles and solutions before corruption resilient hero that the tome of sentimentality and coincidence arranges it feel suspect ... Neither Conrad's script nor Muccino's inessential direction shows [what] lifted picture real-life Chris above better literary and more experienced candidates, on the contrary it comes through in description earnest performances of the pair Smiths.

Father Will seldom be accessibles across this mature on screen; at the finale, he achieves a measure of Oscar-worthy soft-heartedness. Little Jaden is a splinter off the old block, extremely at ease before the cameras. Their real-life bond is chiefly inestimable asset to the on-screen characters' relationship, although Conrad at no time really tests it with rustic conflict."^[17]

National Review Online has forename the film #7 in tight list of 'The Best Cautious Movies'.

Linda Chavez of position Center for Equal Opportunity wrote, "this film provides the shoddy antidote to Wall Street accept other Hollywood diatribes depicting description world of finance as comprehensive with nothing but greed."^[18]

Accolades

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