The pursuit of happyness
The pursuit of happyness [videorecording] /
Pursuit of happiness
Overbrook Entertainment ; Escape Artists ; Columbia Pictures Corporation ; Relativity Media ; produced by Todd Black, ... [et al.] ; written by Steven Conrad ; directed by Gabriele Muccino.
- Widescreen ed.
- Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, c2007.
- 1 videodisc (ca. 117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Director of photography, Phedon Papamichael ; editor, Hughes Winborne ; music, Andrea Guerra. Director of photography, Phedon Papamichael ; editor, Hughes Winborne ; music, Andrea Guerra.
Will Smith, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, James Karen, Dan Castellaneta, Kurt Fuller, Takayo Fischer.
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.
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some language.
9781424817481 142481748X
PN1995.9.B55 / P877858 2007
791.43/72
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.
Director of photography, Phedon Papamichael ; editor, Hughes Winborne ; music, Andrea Guerra. Director of photography, Phedon Papamichael ; editor, Hughes Winborne ; music, Andrea Guerra.
Will Smith, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, James Karen, Dan Castellaneta, Kurt Fuller, Takayo Fischer.
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.
MPAA rating: PG-13; for some language.
9781424817481 142481748X
PN1995.9.B55 / P877858 2007
791.43/72