TY  - ADVS
TI  - The pursuit of happyness
SN  - MED0000344(Local)
PY  - 2007///
PB  - Culver City, Calif., Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
KW  - Sales personnel
KW  - United States
KW  - Drama
KW  - Internship programs
KW  - Stockbrokers
KW  - Fathers and sons˜zUnited StatesœvDrama
N1  - Special features: Making pursuit; father and son; the man behind the movie; inside the Rubik's cube; "I can" song; director's commentary; Library internal view only; Director of photography, Phedon Papamichael ; editor, Hughes Winborne ; music, Andrea Guerra ; costume designer,Sharen Davis ; production designer, J. Michael Riva; Will Smith, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, James Karen, Dan Castellaneta, Kurt Fuller, Takayo Fischer
N2  - In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman. His wife worked double shifts to support the family including theiryoung son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream. The odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father and son struggle through homelessness, jail time, tax seizure and the overall punishing despair in a quest that would make Gardner a respected millionaire
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