Rags to Rags story

Rating: 6/10 (13 March 2007)

This movie was on my see list but not very high, when at the Cineplex it was at the right time. This is a rags to riches story; we get a lot of rags and almost no riches. The riches are in the two lines of text in the epilogue of the movie. Maybe it is my own financial woes of late that are finally turning around but if I commit to traveling this journey with Chris Gardner (Will Smith) through the woes I wanted the pay off and it was not there. We were brought to the edge of his success and left there. That being said Will Smith did an excellent job. I did like that Smith had is own real-life son, Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, play Gardner's son Christopher. As Well as Smith actually solves the Rubik's cube in two minutes.