Introduction Human beings have enormous vitality and psychological resistibility, as both the film “The Pursuit of Happyness” (sic) (2006) and Carl Rogers’s person-centered theory prove. The present paper is intended to discuss the film from the Rogerian viewpoint. A brief summary of the film “The Pursuit of Happyness” (sic) “The Pursuit of Happyness” narrates about a salesman Chris Gardner, who tries to make a beneficial investment for the sake of his family’s well-being. However, the novel equipment for bone-density scanning that he purchases is practically the same as classical x-ray, but costs twice as much. Thus, he has no prospects of selling the apparatuses out and considering the existing financial problems in the family, his spouse leaves him to rear five-year-old Christopher by himself. As he loses all of his savings and property, Chris and his little son become homeless and live on the streets and in special shelters. Further, Chris receives an internship position as a stockbroker, which is not paid for six months until the tops make the decision to hire him as a staff employee, which is not guaranteed. The main character goes through numerous difficulties, including street life, poverty, loss of social status and imprisonment, but finally, owing to the support of his son and his intrinsic motivation and commitment to the child, Chris becomes a successful stockbroker and Wall Street Star. A brief summary of Carl’s Rogers’s person-centered theory Carl Rogers (Ryckman, 2007) assumes that an individual has an underlying tendency to self-actualization, directed to the enhancement of all personal abilities and capacities. This feature is universal and can be attributed to all human beings. This tendency can be oppressed, but it is impossible to destroy such directive and constructive intrinsic aspiration. All temporary motives, desires and wishes can be thus united into this large force, so Rogers believes that each human action serves rather an optimistic goal, i.e. personal growth and progress. The phenomenology of individuals includes both conscious and unconscious experiences (Ryckman, 2007). During one’s development, an individual differentiates certain part of these experiences, which in fact turn into human self, so the ‘self’ is a center of the theory, yet the scholar also takes into account the fact that human is a social creature and develops under the influence of interpersonal interactions that increase awareness and intensify both individual and social functioning (productivity). Self-actualizing tendency thus refers to the aspiration to the actualization of the experience stored in the ‘structure’ of the self. Self-actualization is associated with creating desirable experiences into concrete actions (finding an appropriate job, making scientific inventions, creating a stable family and so on). All these aspects of self-actualization serve one major goal – building consistent and conscious self-esteem in particular and a view of one’s self in general. Discussion of the motion picture from Rogers’s perspective Thus, from the Rogerian perspective, Chris is a healthy personality, who perceives difficulties constructively, viewing them as new challenges which make him stronger. First of all, he is depicted as a socially competent person, as the main character is extremely adherent to family values and uses ea