A Feel Good Movie For Whom? Narcissists?

Rating: 1/10 (11 February 2008)

Chris Gardner is a man on a mission............ to make a better life for his son....even if it kills the kid!!! If this is what passes for a "feel good" movie in the 21st century....we're all damned to hell! I got no inspiration from a film.... showing a father... too stubborn and prideful to do what was best for his kids comfort and safety! Inpirational films feature sympathetic characters, who have run out of options, yet overcome adversity anyway! Chris Gardner, as portrayed in the film, had many options that he didn't bother to explore, because of his foolish pride, his stubbornness, and his quest for the fat buck! He could have allowed his son to go to NY with his ex-wife, but chose to use his child as a pawn, to punish his wife, for bailing on the marriage! He had the opportunity to let his son stay at a shelter for abused wives and children, ensuring his son'e safety, but again...his foolish pride wouldn't permit it, and Gardner thought it was better for his son to sleep on a public restroom floor, than for them to "be apart"! Maybe someday, someone will come forward, to tell the real story of how Gardner got into such a financial hole in the first place. His lack of sales success, and his wife working double shifts as a waitress, isn't a justifiable reason for the kind of money woes they were in, as the movie began! My father had to retire in 1969 due to a heart condition, and my mother managed to take care of a mortgage and bills, a sick husband, and raise 4 kids, on a full time waitress' salary.....so I don't know what Chris Gardner and his wife were doing with their money! An apartment in early 70's San Francisco, was a hell of a lot cheaper to afford, than my childhood home on Long Island....and my mother managed!