Who is pursuit of happiness about

Will Smith stars in an uplifting drama based on the true story of a single father who went from homeless to successful businessman. In the early s in San Francisco, Chris Gardner had big dreams, but could barely earn enough to keep a roof over his young family.

None of his moneymaking schemes work out and their only steady income is from his wife working double-shifts as a hotel maid. When she reaches her limit and tells Chris she is leaving, he insists their young son, Chris Jr. Chris is convinced an unpaid internship at a prestigious stock brokerage firm will lead to a career; but, now as a single father, he finds it harder and harder to stay afloat. Evicted from their motel room home, father and son wind up on the street, sleeping in public restrooms at subway train stations when they cannot find a bed at homeless shelters.

Through it all, Chris is determined to give his son something he himself never had as a child: a father's love. Eventually Chris does make his dream come true. The internship leads to a job and later to start up his own brokerage company with offices in New York, Chicago and San Francisco.

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Soon enough, Chris would understand what it meant to make the big bucks. Chris and Jackie decided that it was best for Junior to stay with his father. However, this caused another major issue. Even though he was employed, the building that Chris was living in did not allow children. They would have to find alternative living quarters. Embarrassed by his situation, Christopher decided to keep both his son and his homelessness a secret from his co-workers.

Many nights they had to choose between money for food or money for shelter, frequently choosing food. By prioritizing food over shelter, the dynamic duo had to constantly look for new and creative places to stay so Christopher could save up for permanent housing. In reality, Christopher Jr. The film producers and writers decided to make him five years old so he could have more meaningful interactions with Chris Sr. Gardner approved of the change because he realized they could tell his story better.

Jaden Smith was seven at the time he played Chris Jr. In the film, while they were still homeless, Chris Jr. Gardner was giving Chris Jr. Christopher was willing to go to great lengths to find places to sleep. This is accurately depicted in the The Pursuit of Happyness. They only slept on the floor for a couple of nights, but made the most of the BART for shelter. They would also sleep on the BART trains. To prepare for the film, Chris took Will Smith to see the actual bathroom in which he slept with Chris Jr.

Gardner told Smith that it made him uncomfortable to be in there for too long, but Smith decided to take in the scene after Chris left the restroom. Money was tight for Chris, so he had to get creative in how he earned a buck here and there. On several occasions, he gave blood for cash. It did not get him much, but it was better than nothing. Chris never felt good about giving blood for money because it allowed him to see desperation at a whole new level — not only from others that he considered below him but from himself as well.

As he was attempting to scrape together money, Christopher learned of a scam to earn some bills. One day, Gardner saw a man fighting with a vending machine for cigarettes in a hotel. When the man went to the front desk and asked for a refund, they obliged.

Over the next two weeks, Chris adopted this into a ploy of his own. Like the film, Chris did frequent the Glide Memorial Church for shelter. One thing the movie did not detail is that the church only took in homeless mothers with kids. Reverend Williams played himself in the film too. He has to pick up his son at the day care center and he also has to be on time to get a room in one of the local homeless shelters.

His life was the one that you think you could never handle. His talents and skills, along with his charisma and personality, earned the trust of several people who signed contracts with the brokerage firm. At the end, we see that he got the one paid position and his life changed dramatically from that moment. Almost at the beginning of the The Pursuit of Happyness movie, his wife leaves him and his son, so he needs to deal with working and caring for his son.

He loves his son, and everything Chris does is for him. Almost at the beginning of the movie, his wife leaves him and his son, so he needs to deal with working and caring for his son. He believed that success depended only on his efforts, not fate or luck. He has a dream, he keeps it, and goes after it.

I am so glad that Will Smith acted along with his son. That makes the movie more engaging and more natural. Chris and his son are friends and love each other.

But lately, that has been three per month more than he has sold, resulting in an increasing embittered Linda continually needing to work double shifts doing manual work at a laundry, which still isn't enough to cover those basic costs, they being currently behind three months rent.

Chris can't afford to pay his parking ticket, meaning that he has to take the bus everywhere now as the clamp remains on the tire of his car. Feeling like the scanner is not the answer to their financial problems, Chris, with or without Linda's blessing, decides to take a chance by switching careers when he sees that brokerage and securities firm Dean Witter has a six month internship program, which only admits twenty applicants, leading to only one intern being hired at the end of the process.

It isn't until he is well immersed into the process that he learns that the internships are non-paying. Based largely on his chutzpah, Chris, against the odds, gets one of the twenty positions. With some changes in their lives resulting in fewer expenses, Chris figures he needs to sell his remaining six scanners just to scrape by for those six months. But some unexpected issues arise which leads to the Gardners possibly not making it through this phase of their lives financially, something he has to hide from his superiors at Dean Witter if he has any chance at all of making it through the internship and getting that paying job with them.

Already struggling to eke out an existence, against the backdrop of earlys San Francisco, the earnest and hard-working bone-density-scanner salesman, Chris Gardner, finds himself with the back to the wall. Left with nothing when his wife abandons the family, the financially hard-pressed father will have to take care of his five-year-old son, Christopher, all by himself when, unexpectedly, the prestigious stock brokerage firm of Dean Witter offers Gardner an unpaid six-month internship.