The pursuit of happyness

Resource Information

The work The pursuit of happyness represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in San Francisco 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 ... [et al.], Jason Blumenthal, James Lassiter, Will Smith, Steve Tisch, Teddy Zee ; written by Steven Conrad ; directed by Gabriele Muccino

Title variation

Pursuit of happiness

Contributor

• Overbrook Films
• Conrad, Steve
• Muccino, Gabriele
• Newton, Thandiwe, 1972-
• Smith, Jaden, 1998-
• Smith, Will, 1968-

Subject

• Despair -- Drama
• Dreams -- Drama
• Fathers and sons -- United States -- Drama
• Feature films
• Internship programs -- United States -- Drama
• Millionaires -- United States -- Drama
• Sales personnel -- United States -- Drama
• Stockbrokers -- United States -- Drama
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Videodiscs

Genre

• Drama
• Feature films
• Video recordings for the hearing impaired
• Videodiscs

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng
• spa
• 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

KyLxBWI

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

Director of photography, Phedon Papamichael ; editor, Hughes Winborne ; music, Andrea Guerra

Dewey number

• [Fic]
• 813/.6

Intended audience

MPAA rating: PG-13; for some language

Language note

• Soundtrack in English or French; subtitles in English or Spanish
• Closed captioned

LC call number

PN1997.2

LC item number

P87 2007

PerformerNote

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

Runtime

117

Target audience

general

Technique

live action