Saturday Family Night

Finally a good movie after such a long while! On Saturday, for Family Night we watched “The Pursuit of Happyness” directed by Gabriele Muccino, and among others starred Will Smith, Jaden Smith, and Thandie Newton. It is really an amazing movie.


“The Pursuit of Happyness” essentially is a true story about Chris Gardner who is a 30-year old, clever, yet unsuccessful, salesman of expensive bone-density scanners. He spent all of his and his wife’s money in buying them thinking they’d be a good investment, but the majority of doctors weren’t buying it b/c they thought it was an unnecessary high expense and were switching to X-Rays instead making practically impossible to earn a living to support Linda (his wife) and Christopher (his five year old son). This caused Linda to end up working double shifts and more for several months just to make ends meat, which causes her to become increasingly unhappy, and both Chris and Linda are getting into more financial hardship as bills keep piling up.


One day, Chris then meets a well off man who reveals to Chris that he’s a stockbroker for the Dean Witter brokerage firm. Impressed, Gardner seeks an interview w/ the firm. Linda, hearing that her husband is going "From salesman to intern - backwards," is no longer able to cope with her unhappiness and their bleak financial situation. And she walks out on Chris, and Chris not wanting be separated from Christopher keeps him w/ him. Eventually, after his interview and after Linda moves to New York, Chris accepts a place in the firm internship programme that he reluctantly accepts since it’s an unpaid internship.


However, things get from bad to worse when he’s evicted from his home becoming homeless w/ Christopher, and essentially ends up broke. At one point, things get so bad that he and Christopher had to sleep in a loo at a subway station! But, things start to look up for Chris at the internship programme as he tries extra hard to succeed for himself and Christopher to get the single job placement at Dean Witter for the 20 interns… I only have one negative about this movie: somehow all throughout the flow just felt stiff and slow.


Overall, it is a brilliant and awe-inspiring movie all should watch, and I highly recommend it! Chris Gardner overcame so much shite in his life, and it reinforces my will to definitely get my Master’s or MBA degree and to work in the Advertising/PR field to become the world’s greatest creative genius… ***FOUR STARS***




P.S.: Sorry if I got some info wrong, but there was just so much that happened in the movie that’s it hard to remember everything