The year is 1981, President Reagan has come to Washington and a major recession is under way. It's based ('inspired' is the word the producers use to describe the script and themselves) somewhat remotely on the real story of Chris Gardner (Will Smith), a bright, black salesman who decided to jack in his ill-paid job peddling medical equipment and take an unpaid six-month internship with a San Francisco stockbroking firm that could end with him on a seven-figure salary. The cinematic equivalent of the most trashy self-help paperback you ever read, The Pursuit of Happyness (sic, but do not find) is a dismal, upbeat celebration of how anyone can achieve a share of the American Dream.
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