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the movie. Will Smith stars as a man who struggles
to keep the bills paid and the IRS at bay, while
helping his young son grow up to be a good person.
Tired of their life together, his wife leaves them,
while he's also evicted from their San Francisco
apartment with nowhere to go. When he does land an
internship at a prestigious stock brokerage firm,
he and his son must endure many hardships,
including homelessness, while trying to make a new
life. Also with Thandie Newton, Jaden Smith, Dan
Castellaneta and Zuhair Haddad. Directed by
Gabriele Muccino. [1:57]
The Review
By far the majority of homeless are men. However,
services seem to be skewed towards homeless women.
So, to see a film about homelessness, and that it
was a man, and he's a father and determined to do
what is right for his son while getting very little
support from his employer, the community, and a
wife who never had a positive thing to say about
him, even in front of their child, was a memory
that will be imbedded in my mind and will be
forever cherished. If a man treated his wife the
way she treated him, he'd be labeled an abuser. But
enough about her.
Oh, and he's black. Finally, a positive story
about a black father pushing hard to make it
against racism, the threat of social services
coming after him, and just the every day challenges
of raising a child in this country. What's unique
about this situation is that it's in the media, a
positive story about a black father. For, it's been
know for years that most of this countries poor are
white, yet the media spends an inordinate amount of
time using the racial stereotype card and making it
seem like blacks are the ones causing all the
problems. The Pursuit of Happyness takes that false
notion and slaps it in the face.
Will Smith and his son do an excellent job
telling this true story. And it's just one of many
stories of African-American fathers working
extremely hard to insure that they nor their family
will be dependent on the government.
It was also nice to see Cecil Williams playing
himself - a man that has spent the majority of his
life helping people who don't have any other place
to go for food or shelter - Glide Memorial Church
in downtown San Francisco. If you get a chance when
visiting San Francisco, make it a point to go to
church Sunday morning for a service with Cecil. It
will remain one of the high points of your vacation
I'm sure. And I'm not the religious sort.
Also make it a point to see The Pursuit of
Happyness to remind yourself that it's easy to be a
father but it takes a major effort to be a dad. -
Gordon Clay
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