This was a great film. My friend and I had the tissues ready and started crying the first five minutes of the movie. Not because it was sad - yet. But because we were already cheering for Chris Gardner to make it.
Will Smith is awesome and has really grown as an actor. I used to watch him on the Fresh Prince and laugh. He was just being himself, of course. But he's always been fun to watch. Here, he is more than fun, he's moving. This story is better than fiction, because it's real. Gardner goes through many trials in order to get his dream job. But he doesn't do it just for money, he does it becasue he wants a better life for himself and for his son. And he's willing to risk it all to make it happen.
During the day, he is a trainee and at night he's homeless. A born salesman, he builds his brokerage accounts and beats out all of the applicants in the internship program and gets hired for real.
I am avoiding mentioning his trails because the preview says it all. The movie is about your right to pursue happiness as a citizen of life and that no matter how hard it gets, you should never lose hope. And if I told you everything that happens, you couldn't go on the tear-jerker ride that makes you very very happy at the end.
See this movie. Will's son is a cutie and funny- got a little of dad in him.
Worth the money: $$$$
