I like movies based on real life events. Jaden Smith played a perfect role, he delivers an outstanding performance as Gardner’s son, Christopher, in what turns out to be a simple, sentimental, but ultimately an inspiring movie. This movie is about with the American Dream from perspective, focusing, as the title implies, on the constitutional right to "pursue" happiness, rather than the right to be happy. the relationship between father and son, through all the ups and downs of family strife and economic instability, take center stage, with lovely results.
Based on a true story and set in 1981 San Francisco, Pursuit begins as Chris Gardner(Will Smith) and his wife, Linda(Thandie Newton), are having troubles. She works double shifts doing hotel laundry; he’s trying to sell bone density scanners(i.e., specialty medical machines that, as Chris admits in voiceover, are too expensive for most doctors to buy). When Linda abandons the family, Chris remains determined. He spends six months working in an unpaid internship at Dean Witter, dead set on becoming a stock broker. He’s smart enough and good with numbers, he figures, having proved that much by solving a Rubik’s cube in front of a Dean Witter broker. As he studies and scrapes by, barely earning enough each week to pay for meals, Chris is sure he’s going to make it.
A very emotional and inspiring mocie, every movie buff should have this movie in their bucket list.