You can feel Smith's pain...

Rating: 8/10 (2 May 2007)

This movie, definitely what you would call a chick flick, has it all...love, dedication, and achieving one's goals Smith is a salesman, but one who has to push the product, himself, because he got rooked into one of those deals where he signs that contract and they send him the material to be sold, and he stores it in his apartment. Thinking of him as a loser, his wife leaves him just as he gets into something that might change his life.
This movie takes place in the early 80's; a time when the economy was probably at its lowest in years at the time. Jobs were scarce and money coming into the household was even more scarce. During the film, I could feel Smith's pain as he tries again and again to get ahead, only to be beaten back down for some reason or another. Its another example (based on a trues story) of the saying, "It's not how many times life can beat you down, but how many times can you get back up."