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More unfortunately, Chris has to lug one around with him all the time as a sample. Chris thought he’d found a way to make a good living, selling bone-density scanners to doctors and hospitals, but it turns out the devices are expensive and their advantages over x-ray machines not terribly clear. The important life lessons aren’t overdone, nor are the Kleenex moments hammered incessantly.Ĭhris and his son, Chris Jr., live in San Francisco, initially with Chris’ wife (Thandie Newton), though she isn’t in the picture for very long. The film was Based on a True Story, yet, as written by Steven Conrad ( “The Weather Man”) and directed by Gabriele Muccino (whose excellent “L’Ultimo Bacio” was recently non-excellently remade as “The Last Kiss”), it avoids being heavy-handed or preachy like so many Based on a True Storys. That errant “y” is a symbol of all things mediocre and unacceptable in “The Pursuit of Happyness,” a genuinely uplifting and appealing dramedy starring Will Smith as Chris Gardner and his real-life son Jaden Christopher Syre Smith as his little boy.

And Chris Gardner has to take his son to a daycare center where they let the kids watch TV all day and where the word “happiness” is misspelled in the window.

Newly elected President Reagan is on TV talking about the lousy economy and what he plans to do about it.