Hey, just got back from the movy, starring Will Smith as a poor father struggling to get by with his (real life) son.
Comments: Yes, there was a lot of lucky things and fortuitous occurances to help Chris Gardner get by. How likely is it that he’d end up finding both bone density scanners? Not very. But you know what? I loved the movie. I think that the real star of the film is Little Smith, who makes some faces that are absolutely perfect, while delivering a good mix of comic and serious lines.
All in all, I’d say a touching movie that will not fail to bring at least one tear to your eye.
The movie itself was interesting but I wonder how much of it was Hollywood exaggeration.
Also, I admit to be naive about big business and big financial companies, but it seemed outrageous to me that Dean Witter “internship” program consisted (and for all I know, still consists of) of having unpaid people make cold sales calls. Silly me, I could’ve sworn that the 13th Amendment and the minimum wage laws prohibited that sort of thing, but obviously they don’t.
I wasn’t incredibly impressed with it. It wasn’t a bad movie, it just didn’t click with me.
zamboniracer, that’s how internships usually work. You do a lot of work for no money in the hopes of impressing someone enough to get paid once it’s over.
What is the reason for the misspelling in the title? Does it arise from a situation that occurs in the movie? I’m not trying to be a Grammar Nazi here; but “Happyness” strikes me as a forced bit of quirkiness.
I didn’t mean to hijack this thread into labor law loopholes.
As for the movie’s hero, Chris Gardner:
I hope that once he made it that he’s become a financial contributor to the homeless shelter / church mission that took he and his son in, and that he paid back the landlords and the taxi driver.
