The Pursuit of Happyness

The Pursuit of Happyness The Movie The Pursuit of Happyness made in 2006. Directed by Gabriele Muccino, this movie is about a man who was broke, homeless, and had to support his five year old son alone. The movie takes place in 1981, in San Francisco. The movie is rated PG13 and stars Will Smith as Chris Gardner, and Will Smith’s son Jaden as Christopher Gardner Jr. The movie represents how hard work can change a person’s life for the better. Throughout the movie Chris Gardner’s family, career, and some of his life is shown. This movie is mostly not a good representation of Chris Gardner besides some life facts. Chris Gardner had to live and sleep many different places while he worked to improve his life. Chris had to sleep on buses, subways, in public bathrooms, homeless shelters, and some other places. The places where Chris had to stay while trying to improve his life was one of the few correct facts about his life shown in the movie The Pursuit of Happyness. Chris had a conversation with a man who owned a red Ferrari 308 convertible. Chris was leaving a hospital and was heading to his car in a parking lot when he saw the Ferrari. Bob Bridges, the owner of the Ferrari was looking for a parking place and Chris took this as an opportunity to learn what Bob does by offering his parking spot for information. This man told Chris that he was a stock broker; a couple weeks after they met they had lunch together and talked more about being a stock broker. This is what influenced Chris to start in the field of stocks. In the movie however, Chris did have a conversation with this man, but it was on the side of a street and Chris never learned the man’s name. Chris and Bob never had a second conversation or lunch together. The movie did not accurately represent Chris’s life facts, except for minor facts. One part of Chris’s life that the movie did not portray very well was his family. Chris Gardner had two