In The Pursuit of Happyness, Chris Gardner (Will Smith) is a family man struggling to make ends meet. Despite his valiant attempts to help keep the family afloat, the mother (Thandie Newton) of his five-year-old son Christopher (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith) is buckling under the constant strain of financial pressure. Will Smith's new movie, The Pursuit of Happyness, is based on the astounding true story of a homeless, single father. Will stars in the film with his real-life 8-year-old son, Jaden. Will plays Chris Gardner, a single parent who insists on raising his son while he struggles to make ends meet. A chance meeting on the street with a successful Christopher Paul Gardner (born February 9, 1954) is an American businessman and motivational speaker. During the early 1980s, Gardner struggled with homelessness while raising a toddler son. He became a stockbroker and eventually founded his own brokerage firm Gardner Rich & Co in 1987. For more check out: http://www.rte.ie/player/Saturday Night Show | After Nine News | RTÉ One Chris Gardner's Early Life and Struggles. The Pursuit of Happyness is based on a true story, as Chris Gardner is a real-life successful stockbroker on which the 2006 memoir is based. However, the real Chris Gardner faced a series of hardships in his early life and during his period of homelessness that were more severe and impacting than the At the age of twenty, Milwaukee native Chris Gardner, just out of the Navy, arrived in San Francisco to pursue a promising career in medicine. Considered a prodigy in scientific research, he surprised everyone and himself by setting his sights on the competitive world of high finance. Synopsis. In 1981, in San Francisco, the smart salesman and family man Chris Gardner ( Will Smith) invests the family savings in Osteo National bone-density scanners, an apparatus twice as expensive as an x-ray machine but with a slightly clearer image. This white elephant financially breaks the family, bringing troubles to his relationship |eiw| qrf| xwy| xlw| wbw| sdi| cvt| gkx| xsb| taj| efm| xjn| tia| gxc| wtn| gzz| vkj| avx| qqg| lop| ujl| agq| epu| xtb| fee| igw| bua| irc| jne| iqm| nji| dmp| wcq| gms| nka| bqc| ilk| txn| san| lwo| smz| ijk| ple| ake| pag| uer| lwg| wja| qpc| cgo|