[The Pursuit of Happyness] Language:English Genre:Biographical Drama

The Pursuit of Happyness is a true story of an on-and-off-homeless salesman-turned stockbroker.The film was released on December 15, 2006, by Columbia Pictures. For his performance, Smith received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and a Golden Globe nomination.

Plot

In 1981, in San Francisco, the smart salesman and family man Chris Gardner invests the family savings in Osteo National bone-density scanners, an apparatus twice as expensive as an x-ray machine but with a slightly clearer image. This investment financially breaks the family, bringing troubles to his relationship with his wife Linda, who leaves him and moves to New York where she has received a job in a pizza parlor. She wishes to take their son Christopher with her, but Chris refuses because they both know that Linda will be unable to take care of him. Without money or a wife, but committed to his son Christopher, Chris sees the chance to fight for a stockbroker internship position at Dean Witter, offering a more promising career at the end of a six month unpaid training period. During that period, Chris goes through a lot of hardship personally and professionally.Chris struggles to hold back tears. His eyes well up and he shakes hands with the partners. He leaves the conference room and grabs his stuff and goes outside. Here he begins to cry as the busy people of San Francisco walk past him. He rushes to his son's daycare and grabs and picks him up, holding him, knowing that everything is going to be all right.