The pursuit of happyness

The pursuit of happyness

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 fu...

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Corporate Authors: Overbrook Entertainment (Firm), Escape Artists (Firm), Columbia Pictures Corporation, Relativity Media, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
Other Authors: Black, Todd, Blumenthal, Jason, Lassiter, James, Smith, Will, 1968-, Tisch, Steve, Zee, Teddy, Conrad, Steve, Muccino, Gabriele, Smith, Jaden, 1998-, Newton, Thandie, 1972-, Howe, Brian (Actor), Karen, James, 1923-, Castellaneta, Dan, Fuller, Kurt, 1953-, Fischer, Takayo
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
French
Published: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2007.
Edition:Widescreen ed.
Subjects:
Sales personnel > United States > Drama.
Internship programs > United States > Drama.
Stockbrokers > United States > Drama.
Fathers and sons > United States > Drama.
Dreams > Drama.
Despair > Drama.
Millionaires > United States > Drama.
Vendedores > Estados Unidos > Teatro.
Padre e hijo > Estados Unidos > Teatro.
Father-son relationship > United States > Drama.
Despair
Dreams
Fathers and sons
Internship programs
Millionaires
Sales personnel
Stockbrokers
United States
Feature films.
Biographical films.
Melodrama.
Biographical > Feature.
Melodrama > Feature.
Videorecordings for the hearing impaired.
Videodiscs.
DVD-Video discs.
Biographical films
Drama
Feature films
Melodrama
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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.
Item Description:DVD release of a 2006 motion picture.
Special features: Making pursuit; Father and son; The man behind the movie; Inside the Rubik's� Cube; director's commentary.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD; region 1; widescreen (2.40:1) presentation.
Audience:MPAA rating: PG-13; for some language.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Phedon Papamichael ; editor, Hughes Winborne ; music, Andrea Guerra.
ISBN:9781424817481
142481748X

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