Nice story, but it isn't true.

Rating: 7/10 (20 December 2006)

The movie is a highly fictionalized treatment of Christopher Gardner's story. For example, the movie suggests that Gardner's training program would be unpaid, while in actuality he did receive a monthly stipend of $1,000. Another interesting fact is that while the movie shows him and and his son being turned away from a womens shelter, he was in fact accepted at one of them. These facts and others could have been included in the movie while not reducing its impact.
While the movie is inspiring in the way Gardner cared for his son and beat the odds, nothing is mentioned of his daughter, and little attention is paid to the overall lesson we can learn from the film and Gardner's life, that having lots and lots of money is a great way to find happiness.