The Pursuit of Happyness

This is the true story of Christopher Gardner, a man who invests heavily in an expensive medical device that doesn’t offer a great benefit over its cheaper competitors. As a result, he finds it hard to sell them and his life hits a downward spiral. His wife leaves, he loses his house, and he is forced to live on the street with his son. Then he takes a job as a stockbroker, but before he can receive any money, he has to pass six months of training and sell the medical devices.

This movie shows that even when it seems like you’re living the American Dream, it can all fall away due to a twist of fate and the deck can become stacked against you. Still, Gardner succeeds against the odds

Money matters in “The Pursuit of Happyness,” as it does in life. But it matters more openly in this film than it does in most Hollywood stories that set their sights on the poor, largely because Chris’s pursuit of happiness eventually becomes interchangeable with his pursuit of money. He just want just a better, more secure life for himself and his child. His desires aren’t just upwardly mobile; they’re materialistically unbound. Instead of a nice starter home, looking for mansions. It’s no wonder he hopes to become a stockbroker.

Chris agrees to an unpaid internship at Dean Witter Reynolds' brokerage firm, which promises employment to only one in 20 interns based on internship results. Lack of money and lack of densitometers to sell puts Chris at a standstill, and he and his son become homeless as a result. Chris and son are forced to sleep in a subway toilet.Sometimes they manage to get into the shelter, sometimes they stay on the street. Doing everything possible for his son, despite all the difficult circumstances, Chris finds the strength to complete the internship program and become the only intern that the firm will hire.

As a result, Chris gets a job, and later in 1987 founds his own brokerage firm. By selling his stake in 2006, he made millions of dollars.