![]() Instead, this success story follows the pattern most common in life - it chronicles a series of soul-sickening failures and defeats, missed opportunities, sure things that didn't quite happen, all of which are accompanied by a concomitant accretion of barely perceptible victories that gradually amount to something. In its outlines, it's nothing like the usual success story depicted on screen, in which, after a reasonable interval of disappointment, success arrives wrapped in a ribbon and a bow. It may have seemed that way from the trailer: Will Smith tells his son, "Don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't do something - even me." But in context, even that moment isn't cloying. ![]() The great surprise of the picture is that it's not corny. And because we know that - because we've seen more than one movie in our lives - "The Pursuit of Happiness" has a particular challenge: To take the real-life rags-to-riches story of stockbroker Chris Gardner, a story with a preordained happy ending, and imbue it with tension and suspense. Certainly, no one would make a Will Smith movie about a guy who breaks under the strain of his difficult life, abandons his child and dies. ![]() No one would make a movie about a guy struggling to succeed who doesn't ultimately succeed. ![]()
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