Description |
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
digital |
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optical |
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stereo |
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PAL |
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video file |
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DVD video |
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region 4 |
Note |
Originally produced as an American motion picture in 2006. |
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Special features: Commentary with director Gabriele Muccino [audio feature]; Making pursuit: An Italian take on the American dream [featurette] (18 min.); Father and son: On screen and off [featurette] (8 min.); The man behind the movie: A conversation with Chris Gardner [featurette] (13 min.); Inside the Rubik's® Cube [featurette] (7 min.); "I Can" musical performance [audio only]; previews (26 min.). |
Credits |
Director of photography, Phedon Papamichael ; film editor, Hughes Winborne ; music by Andrea Guerra ; production designer, J. Michael Riva ; costume designer, Sharen Davis. |
Cast |
Will Smith (Chris Gardner), Thandie Newton (Linda), Brian Howe (Jay Twistle), James Karen (Martin Frohm), Dan Castellaneta (Alan Frakesh), Kurt Fuller (Walter Ribbon), Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (Christopher). |
Summary |
Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a single dad who has to support and care for a young child. Impressing a Dean Witter higher-up by solving a Rubik's cube during a taxi ride, Chris gets a place in a stockbroker-training program. But internships don't pay, and there's no guarantee he'll be offered a job at the end of it. Against all odds, he pushes toward success, and eventually turns his life around. |
Audience |
MPAA rating: Rated M for some language. |
System Details |
DVD-video; Region 4; PAL. |
Language |
In English or French with optional subtitles in English, French, or Spanish ; close-captioned in English. |
Subject |
Gardner, Chris (Chris P.) -- Drama.
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Gardner, Chris (Chris P.) |
Genre/Form |
Drama.
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Subject |
Gardner, Chris (Chris P.) -- Interviews.
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Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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Subject |
Single fathers -- Drama.
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Single fathers. |
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Fathers and sons -- United States -- Drama.
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Fathers and sons. |
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United States. |
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Homelessness -- Drama.
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Homelessness. |
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Internship programs -- United States -- Drama.
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Internship programs. |
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Dreams -- Drama.
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Dreams. |
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Despair -- Drama.
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Despair. |
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Millionaires -- United States -- Drama.
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Millionaires. |
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Stockbrokers -- United States -- Drama.
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Stockbrokers. |
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Sales personnel -- United States -- Drama.
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Sales personnel. |
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San Francisco (Calif.) -- Drama.
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Genre/Form |
Video recordings.
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Video recordings.
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Drama.
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Interviews.
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Added Author |
Black, Todd, producer.
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Blumenthal, Jason, producer.
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Tisch, Steve, producer.
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Lassiter, James, producer.
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Smith, Will, 1968- producer, actor.
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Conrad, Steve, screenwriter.
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Muccino, Gabriele, director.
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Newton, Thandiwe, 1972- actor.
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Howe, Brian (Actor), actor.
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Karen, James, 1923-2018, actor.
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Castellaneta, Dan, actor.
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Fuller, Kurt, 1953- actor.
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Smith, Jaden, 1998- actor.
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Papamichael, Phedon, cinematographer.
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Winborne, Hughes, film editor.
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Guerra, Andrea, 1961- composer.
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Gardner, Chris (Chris P.), interviewee.
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Columbia Pictures Industries.
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Relativity Media.
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Overbrook Entertainment (Firm)
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Escape Artists (Firm)
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
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Added Title |
Pursuit of happyness (Motion picture) https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007036628
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ISBN |
142481748X |
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9781424817481 |
Standard No. |
043396150850 |
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9317731043918 |
Music No. |
15085, D411980 Columbia Pictures |
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