TY - ADVS AU - Muccino,Gabriele AU - Black,Todd AU - Smith,Jaden AU - Newton,Thandie AU - Howe,Brian ED - Columbia Pictures corporation. ED - Relativity Media. ED - Overbrook Entertainment (Firm) ED - Escape Artists (Firm) ED - Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. TI - The pursuit of happyness U1 - 791.4372 PY - 2007/// CY - [Culver City, Calif.] PB - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment KW - Gardner, Chris KW - Stockbrokers KW - Biography KW - Drama KW - Internship programs KW - United States KW - Fathers and sons N1 - Originally produced as a motion picture in 2006; Will Smith, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, James Karen, Dan Castellaneta, Kurt Fuller, Takayo Fischer N2 - 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 ER -