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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.
An English translation of Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui's Principles of Natural and Politic Law prepared in 1763 extolled the "noble pursuit" of "true and solid happiness" in the opening chapter discussing natural rights. [30] Historian Jack Rakove posits Burlamaqui as a source in addition to Locke as inspiration for Jefferson's phrase. [31]
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 ...
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.
Howard Mumford Jones (April 16, 1892 – May 11, 1980) [1] was an American intellectual historian, literary critic, journalist, poet, and professor of English at the University of Michigan and later at Harvard University. [2] Jones was the book editor for The Boston Evening Transcript. [3]
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 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.
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.