The Pursuit of Happyness

2006

Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton

Chris Gardner (Will Smith) is having a hard time providing for his family. The hospital scanner business he put all his life savings into is not proving popular and he can't sell them! His wife Linda (Newton) is having to work day and night to feed their son Christopher (Jaden Smith). This is causing a great strain on their relationship. Chris sees how apparently happy all the high flyers are working in the Dean Witter Stockbroker building and after seeing an application for an apprenticeship, decides to go in for it! It will change his life.

I absolutly love this film. Will Smith is on top form here. One of his best. The scene in the toilet shows just how good an actor Smith can be if given the right project. I think it also helped that he was playing dad to his own son, which must have affected him on a personal level. Jaden is fantastic as the son........although for some reason he was a better actor then, than he is now....how that happened i don't know. More of an ego now? Thandie Newton....will she ever play a character i like? She is an absolute *&%$* in this...but that's why she is good.

Music is fantastic...the theme song is lovely...and now im sitting humming it in my head haha!

9/10