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The Pursuit of Happyness is a 2006 American biographical drama film directed by Gabriele Muccino and starring Will Smith as Chris Gardner, a homeless salesman.Smith's son Jaden Smith co-stars, making his film debut as Gardner's son, Christopher Jr.
The unusual spelling of the film's title comes from a sign Gardner saw when he was homeless. In the film, "happiness" is misspelled (as "happyness") outside the daycare facility Gardner's son attends. The movie, starring Will Smith, Thandiwe Newton and Jaden Smith, focused on Gardner's nearly one-year struggle with homelessness. The movie ...
The Pursuit of Happiness, an Australian film directed by Martha Ansara; Pursuit of Happiness, a 2001 film starring Frank Whaley, Annabeth Gish, and Amy Jo Johnson; The Pursuit of Happyness, 2006 film based on a true story about Chris Gardner, a father who battled homelessness while training to be a stockbroker
The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2024. ISBN 9781668002476. Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law, New York: Henry Holt, 2019. ISBN 9781250235169.
He was twice nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction – for his first novel, The Pursuit of Happiness (1968), which was adapted into a 1971 film of the same name, and his second novel, The Confessions of a Child of the Century by Samuel Heather (1972). His final two novels were both centered on the same protagonist.
Todd Black (born February 9, 1960) is an American film producer best known for producing The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009), The Equalizer (2014), Southpaw (2015), The Magnificent Seven (2016), and Fences (2016) for which he received an Academy Award for Best Picture nomination with Scott Rudin and Denzel Washington.
The Pursuit of Happiness is a 1971 American drama film about a student who goes on the run to avoid serving his full prison sentence for vehicular manslaughter. [1] The film was directed by Robert Mulligan. The producer was David Susskind and the associate producer Alan Shayne.
Philip Elliot Slater (May 15, 1927 – June 20, 2013 [2]) was an American sociologist and writer.He was the author of the bestselling 1970 book on American culture, The Pursuit of Loneliness (1970) and of numerous other books and articles.