The pursuit of happyness

Black, Todd. (Added Author). Blumenthal, Jason. (Added Author). Tisch, Steve. (Added Author). Lassiter, James. (Added Author). Smith, Will, 1968- (Added Author). Conrad, Steve. (Added Author). Muccino, Gabriele. (Added Author). Newton, Thandie, 1972- (Added Author). Howe, Brian (Actor) (Added Author). Karen, James, 1923- (Added Author). Castellaneta, Dan. (Added Author). Fuller, Kurt, 1953- (Added Author). Smith, Jaden, 1998- (Added Author). Columbia Pictures Industries. (Added Author). Relativity Media. (Added Author). Overbrook Entertainment (Firm) (Added Author). Escape Artists (Firm) (Added Author). Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm) (Added Author). Will Smith (Chris Gardner), Thandie Newton (Linda), Brian Howe (Jay Twistle), James Karen (Martin Frohm), Dan Castellaneta (Alan Frakesh), Kurt Fuller (Walter Ribbon), Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (Christopher). (Cast).

Summary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a single dad who has to support and care for a young child. Impressing a Dean Witter higher-up by solving a Rubik's cube during a taxi ride, Chris gets a place in a stockbroker-training program. But internships don't pay, and there's no guarantee he'll be offered a job at the end of it. Against all odds, he pushes toward success, and eventually turns his life around.

Record details

Physical Description: videodisc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Widescreen ed.
Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia Pictures Industries : [2008]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally produced as an American motion picture in 2006.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director of photography, Phedon Papamichael ; film editor, Hughes Winborne ; music by Andrea Guerra ; production designer, J. Michael Riva ; costume designer, Sharen Davis.
Participant or Performer Note:	Will Smith (Chris Gardner), Thandie Newton (Linda), Brian Howe (Jay Twistle), James Karen (Martin Frohm), Dan Castellaneta (Alan Frakesh), Kurt Fuller (Walter Ribbon), Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (Christopher).
System Details Note:	DVD; widescreen presentation aspect ratio 2.35:1.
Language Note:	In English or Chinese with optional subtitles in English or Chinese.