The pursuit of happyness

Resource Information

The work The pursuit of happyness represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Worthington Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

The pursuit of happyness

Statement of responsibility

Overbrook Entertainment ; Escape Artists ; Columbia Pictures Corporation ; Relativity Media ; produced by Todd Black [and others] ; written by Steven Conrad ; directed by Gabriele Muccino

Contributor

• Columbia Pictures Corporation
• Escape Artists (Firm)
• Overbrook Entertainment (Firm)
• Relativity Media
• Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
• Black, Todd
• Conrad, Steve
• Muccino, Gabriele
• Newton, Thandie, 1972-
• Smith, Jaden, 1998-
• Smith, Will, 1968-

Subject

• Biographical -- Feature
• Biographical films
• Despair -- Drama
• Dreams -- Drama
• Fathers and sons -- United States -- Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Internship programs -- United States -- Drama
• Melodrama -- Feature
• Melodramas (Motion pictures)
• Millionaires -- United States -- Drama
• Sales personnel -- United States -- Drama
• Stockbrokers -- United States -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Genre

• Biographical
• Biographical films
• Drama
• Feature films
• Fiction films
• Melodrama
• Melodramas (Motion pictures)
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• fre
• spa
• eng
• eng

Summary

In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman. His wife worked double shifts to support the family including their young 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

Cataloging source

TEFMT

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Phedon Papamichael ; production designer, J. Michael Riva ; music, Andrea Guerra

Language note

In English or dubbed into French with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles

LC call number

PN1997.A12

LC item number

P8727 2006a

PerformerNote

Will Smith, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, James Karen, Dan Castellaneta, Kurt Fuller, Takayo Fischer

Runtime

117

Technique

live action