The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
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Will Smith shines and proves that he isn't just a big budget action man in this heartfelt rendition of a real-life story. A door to door salesman without much luck lands an internship but his private life is absolute hell as he tackles with money issues. What is worse is he has his five-year-old boy to take care of, whilst he does all of it. Buoyed by both the Smith's performances as father-son The Pursuit Of Happyness is never melodramatic (or not to the extent it becomes noticeable) and real life lessons on ethics of hard work are finely put forth. Go watch it to get a lesson of sorts.
Will Smith and his son are doing an amazig role, purely brilliant. The movie has all the ingredients for a master piece: great story, emotional moments, surprise elements. 100% recommend it
The pursuit of happyness, is a movie came out in 2006 which is based on a true story of a salesman in San Fransisco, who tries to sell his portable bone density scanners to doctors. Unfortantely, he doesn't make regular revenues which affects his financial situation. He doesn't give up, he tries his best to sell his scanners in order to afford a standard living for his son after his wife leaves them. I really liked everything about the movie, the acting from the Smiths was just outstanding and coherent. I highly recommend watching this movie because he taught me a lot about life(sales), it showed me that our world is cruel but you should knock all doors to make your dream a reality instead of making excuses and putting the responsibility on circumstances.
A man goes from being unable to support himself and his family to exploiting others to become a multimillionaire. If you read the Declaration of Independence from which "the pursuit of happiness" is quoted, it ends with "to this we pledge our lives, our FORTUNES, and our SACRED HONOR." The Founders who wrote that the pursuit of happiness is an unalienable right, gave their fortunes to win it. The end, that the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of money, that the cure to unhappiness is unbridled greed, is really sad. These people need therapy. I also found the story inauthentic. A lot of support mechanisms are available to homeless people in NYC. Of course, he used those resources but they left out that part to manipulate the viewer.