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Rating: 4/10 (13 January 2007)

er hello, ummmm. Let me get this straight, is it the eighties? The Pursuit of Happiness is set in the eighties and in the eighties the main objective above all else was The Pursuit of Personal Wealth. Personal Wealth = Happiness. Now two decades on we have moved on (albeit ever so slightly) from believing this ethos so wholeheartedly. Personally I was looking forward to a film that was a little more spiritual than a very below average rags to riches tale. Based on a true story, I doff my hat to whoever it is based on, well done. Having read an earlier posting on this site it mentioned an ending comparable to the golden moment in The Shawshank Redemption; sorry that must have been missing in the edit I saw, it just chugged along the whole way through, the ending came as sure as death and taxation with as much surprise as a Sly Stallone movie.
So this film taught me nothing I didn't know prior to viewing and left me cheated out of my GBP8. Work hard you succeed, the oldest adage in the book and one that is at the heart of American sentiments. Great next they'll be saying the world is round, yeah right.
PS. Will Smith turned a good performance as too his little boy.