With some changes in their lives resulting in fewer expenses, Chris figures he needs to sell his remaining six scanners just to scrape by for those six months. They went to a church shelter standing in line waiting to go in, but got int. Based largely on his chutzpah, Chris, against the odds, gets one of the twenty positions. Chris and his son were evicted by the landowner and had to find a place to stay. It isn't until he is well immersed into the process that he learns that the internships are non-paying. Chris Gardner is a bright and talented, but marginally employed salesman.
Starring: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandiwe Newton. (2006) A single father (Will Smith) and his young son (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith) endure. Feeling like the scanner is not the answer to their financial problems, Chris, with or without Linda's blessing, decides to take a chance by switching careers when he sees that brokerage and securities firm Dean Witter has a six month internship program, which only admits twenty applicants, leading to only one intern being hired at the end of the process. Stream The Pursuit of Happyness (HBO) on HBO Max. When Chris and his son are evicted, they face trying times as a desperate Chris accepts an unpaid internship at a stock brokerage firm. Chris can't afford to pay his parking ticket, meaning that he has to take the bus everywhere now as the clamp remains on the tire of his car.
But lately, that has been three per month more than he has sold, resulting in an increasing embittered Linda continually needing to work double shifts doing manual work at a laundry, which still isn't enough to cover those basic costs, they being currently behind three months rent. He needs to sell three scanners per month just to meet the basic necessities to support his family, his wife, Linda, and their five year old son, Christopher, on who he dotes since he didn't know his own father when he was a child. Despite being a better product than x-rays machines, they are also far more expensive, meaning that they are an unnecessary luxury for most physicians.
He has invested all his money on portable bone density scanners, which he personally sells to physicians. It really get you to think for a second and understand the depth of the meaning. Start watching with your public library card or university login. He explains that happiness is something you can pursue and never keep it or receive it or give it. enable Javascript to use Kanopy Show me how And the Pursuit of Happiness.
Yet he is struggling financially in his life. It all starts with the title of the movie and explanation of the title by narrator referring to Declaration of Independence of America. In what limited academic opportunities he has had in his life, Chris Gardner has demonstrated that he is a smart man. George Cheung as Chinese Maintenance Worker (as George K.