THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPYNESS

Director - Gabriele Muccino

Cast - Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton, Dan Castella, Brian Howe.

Awards - MTV Movie award for best breakthrough performance.
NAACP Image award for outstanding motion picture.
Teen choice award for choice movie : chemistry.
Phoenix film critics society award for best performance by a youth or supp.
Teen choice award for choice movie : drama.
Teen choice award for choice movie actor : drama.
ASCAP film and television music award for top box office films.

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Pursuit of happyness is a biographical drama film based on the life of Chris Gardner, who lived as a homeless salesman for nearly a year and how he completely change his life through struggle with always a smile on his face.The movie show us that how we can be happy if we just focused on our own pursuit of happyness.

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The film take us back to 1980 when Chris Gardener (played by Will Smith) was just a small salesman who used to sell medical devices and live in San Francisco with his wife and son.His life started to get worse when their devices were not in use anymore and the demand for it faded out, hardly some hospital took it.So, eventually Chris became unemployment and and they started facing  financials problems.His wife had to work overtime just to put food on the table, it continued for months until his wife couldn't take it and lift him, fate took him to lifestyle he had never thought of.He became homeless and while he had to take care of his little son.He used to visit every hospital he could to sell his devices.Then he finds an unpaid 6 - month internship position at the brokerage firm.His life was so full of misery and struggle we could never handle.He had to pick his son from day care center and had to be on time to get a room in one of the local homeless shelter.His talent, skill and personality earned him the contract with the brokerage firm.At the end he got the one paid position and his life changed dramatically from that moment.

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The cast of this movies, Chris Gardner played by Will Smith is truly a master piece and nobody could have done it better then him and Christopher played by Jaden Smith is truly an amazing character to watch.We can feel the emotional connection between the two.

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"If you want something in your life go get it''
Even after 14 years, this movie give us the life long lesson to never give up and fight every obstacles that comes in our journey and create our own pursuit of happyness.