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Title The pursuit of happyness / Columbia Pictures presents ; in association with Relativity Media ; an Overbrook Entertainment production ; an Escape Artists production ; a film by Gabriele Muccino ; produced by Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch, James Lassiter, Will Smith ; written by Steven Conrad ; directed by Gabriele Muccino.

Publication Info. Culver City, Calif : Columbia Pictures Industries : Distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, [2007]
©2007

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 Moore Video  PN1995.9.B55 P877858 2007    Available  Ask at Circulation Desk
Description 1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description digital
optical
stereo
PAL
video file
DVD video
region 4
Note Originally produced as an American motion picture in 2006.
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.
Gardner, Chris (Chris P.)
Genre/Form Drama.
Subject Gardner, Chris (Chris P.) -- Interviews.
Genre/Form Interviews.
Subject Single fathers -- Drama.
Single fathers.
Fathers and sons -- United States -- Drama.
Fathers and sons.
United States.
Homelessness -- Drama.
Homelessness.
Internship programs -- United States -- Drama.
Internship programs.
Dreams -- Drama.
Dreams.
Despair -- Drama.
Despair.
Millionaires -- United States -- Drama.
Millionaires.
Stockbrokers -- United States -- Drama.
Stockbrokers.
Sales personnel -- United States -- Drama.
Sales personnel.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Drama.
Genre/Form Video recordings.
Video recordings.
Drama.
Interviews.
Added Author Black, Todd, producer.
Blumenthal, Jason, producer.
Tisch, Steve, producer.
Lassiter, James, producer.
Smith, Will, 1968- producer, actor.
Conrad, Steve, screenwriter.
Muccino, Gabriele, director.
Newton, Thandiwe, 1972- actor.
Howe, Brian (Actor), actor.
Karen, James, 1923-2018, actor.
Castellaneta, Dan, actor.
Fuller, Kurt, 1953- actor.
Smith, Jaden, 1998- actor.
Papamichael, Phedon, cinematographer.
Winborne, Hughes, film editor.
Guerra, Andrea, 1961- composer.
Gardner, Chris (Chris P.), interviewee.
Columbia Pictures Industries.
Relativity Media.
Overbrook Entertainment (Firm)
Escape Artists (Firm)
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm)
Added Title Pursuit of happyness (Motion picture) https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007036628
ISBN 142481748X
9781424817481
Standard No. 043396150850
9317731043918
Music No. 15085, D411980 Columbia Pictures