Title –The Pursuit of Happyness

The Cast of the Pursuit of Happyness

Will Smith                     : Chris Gardner

Jaden Smith                   : Christopher

Thandie Newton            : Linda

Brian Howe                   : Jay Twistle

James Karen                  : Martin Frohm

Dan Catellaneta             : Alan Frakesh

Kurt Fuller                     : Walter Ribbon

Takayo Fischer              : Mrs. Chu

Setting- 

                 “The Pursuit of Happyness” is in San Francisco-California at 2006. The Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 American film based on entrepreneur Chris Gardner's nearly one-year struggle being homeless. Directed by Gabriele Muccino, the film features Will Smith as Gardner, a homeless salesman .

Genre-Biographical Drama

Synopsis

In 1981, San Francisco salesman Chris Gardner (Will Smith) invests his entire life savings in portable bone density scanners, which he demonstrates to doctors and pitches as a handy quantum leap over standard X-rays. The scanners play a vital role in Chris' life. While he is able to sell most of them, the time lag between the sales and his growing financial demands enrage his already bitter and alienated wife Linda (Thandie Newton), who works as a hotel maid. The financial instability increasingly erodes their marriage, in spite of them caring for their five-year-old son

Christopher (Jaden Smith). by his limited work hours, and knowing that maximizing his client contacts and profits Disadvantaged is the only way to earn the broker position, Gardner develops a number of ways to make phone sales calls more efficiently, including reaching out to potential high value customers, defying protocol. One sympathetic prospect who is a top-level pension fund manager even takes him and his son to a San Francisco 49ers game

Regardless of his challenges, he never reveals his lowly circumstances to his colleagues, even going so far as to lend one of his bosses five dollars for cab fare, a sum that he cannot afford. Concluding his internship, Gardner is called into a meeting with his managers. One of them notes he is wearing a new shirt. Gardner explains it is his last day and thought to dress for the occasion. The manager smiles and says he should wear it again tomorrow, letting him know he has won the coveted full-time position. Fighting back tears, Gardner shakes hands with them, then rushes to his son's daycare to embrace Christopher

They walk down the street, joking with each other and are passed by a man in a business suit (the real Chris Gardner in a cameo appearance). The epilogue reveals that Gardner went on to form his own multimillion-dollar brokerage firm.

Challenges faced by Gardner

Chris Gardner has big dreams for him and his family but it doesn't seem to come together for him. Chris has an opportunity to be a stock broker but first he has to go through a grueling internship which means no pay. Chris decides to do it but when his wife leaves and he is evicted, he has to take care of his son on his own. So they find themselves sometimes living on the street and struggling to get by. But Chris is determined to make it.

Message

Chase your dream. Don’t allow others to decide your limitations based on their opinion.