Title: "When Happiness Comes Knocking"
When Happiness Comes Knocking is an American movie directed by Gabriel Muccino and starring Will Smith, Jaden Smith and Thandie Newton. The movie is based on a true story and the main character is Chris Gardner, a black American investment expert.
The movie tells the story of a near-bankruptcy, his wife left home of the down-and-out salesman, how hard-working good single parent responsibility, upwardly mobile to become a stock market trader, and finally become a well-known financial investor's inspirational story. The movie was nominated for Best Actor at the 2007 Academy Awards.
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San Francisco, 1981, Chris Gardner (Will Smith) is a smart medical equipment salesman, but he's having a tough time during the sub-economic recession. He travels from hospital to hospital and clinic to clinic, but the doctors aren't interested in his bone density scanner, which is twice as expensive as an X-ray scanner.
His wife, Linda (Sandy Newton), can't continue to put up with this hard life and leaves him and their 5-year-old son, Christopher (Jaden Smith), behind. And the backstabbing doesn't end there for the Gardner father-son duo, who are swept off their feet by their landlord because they can't afford to pay the rent, and sometimes even have to spend the night in a subway bathroom.
Determined to turn into a stockbroker with a chance at a high income, Chris' hard work and ingenuity impresses the firm's manager, Jay Twistu (Brian Hovey), and he passes the preliminary exam. And in the re-test, despite the fact that he came out on top, Chris had to come to the interview site dressed as a whitewasher, but he was extremely determined having only gone to high school;
Eventually, a few of the firm's partners thought it would be good to give him a chance, and he became one of the 20 interns. The six-month internship that followed would make life even harder for the Gardner father and son, because the internship was unpaid and only one of the 20 interns would stay. They'll have to live off those bone density scanners for now.