The Pursuit Of Happyness (DVD)

Chris Gardner is a travelling salesman, reliant on the commission from his sales to pay the bills and rent. The job is not as profitable as he had hoped and he and his partner, Linda, who works shifts in a factory, are struggling to make ends meet. But Chris has a plan. He wants to become a stockbroker. The only problem is, the only way to become one is to try to get an unpaid internship for six months. His pushiness gets him the internship, but Linda has had enough and leaves him and their son, Christopher. After losing their flat and becoming homeless, Chris is forced to reconsider his options. Will he ever achieve his ambition of becoming a stockbroker and be able to ...  Read the complete review

This film is based on the true story of Chris Gardner, a failing salesman who relationship falls apart and his journey coping with being a single father, and struggling to make his way into the difficult career of a stock broker to make a better life for himself and his son, it follows all the struggles they go through along the way, including homelessness. Will Smith is on great form as Chris Gardner and portrays all the emotions and difficulties the character has to go through perfectly. His love for his son shines through, which is possibly helped by the fact that his on screen son is in fact played by his real life son Jaden Smith who gives an outstanding ...  Read the complete review

Will Smith, more than any other actor working today, loves to take on roles where he is the movie, and on a screen for most of it. He is the type of charismatic star that can carry that off, turning average movies like Bad Boys and I-Robot into good movies. He does it to great effect in 'Ali' and is doing it again in 'I Am Legend'. But when he's up there and the movie isn't so good then it really does look vacuous and magnify the weakness of the rest of the script, as it does with this one and, of course, the ghastly 'Hitch'. Smith hasn't done a decent movie since that mesmeric performance as Mohammed Ali back in 2001 and now he has steered away from playing likeable ...  Read the complete review

I have always thought Will Smith was an excellent actor and he usually picks great roles, well apart from Wild West which wasn’t really that good. I had heard of the film ‘The Pursuit Of Happyness’ a while back but was never too sure what it was about. I decided to go onto the Apple website and have a look at the trailer to give me a better idea. It looked really good and I had bought the DVD so I was ready to watch a good film. The film begins almost right away with Chris Gardner (Will Smith) as a sales man. Every day he wakes up with the mission of having to sell bone density machines to hospitals or anywhere that will buy them so he can make some money. ...  Read the complete review

In watching The Pursuit of Happyness your sent time travelling, back to 1981; not simply because the movie is set in 1981, but from a moral standpoint the movie feels like it was actually made in 1981. I'm reminded in lots of ways by the movie Kramer Vs Kramer, as it has a certain sort of ethical feel about it. This heart-warming tale provides a certain level of clarity and innocence that we seldom see nowadays. Chris Gardner to a certain degree is a dreamer, some years ago he spent all his life savings on Bone Density scanner's a deal that seemed too good to be true. And that was the point they were too good to be true, and some years later Chris is still ...  Read the complete review