The Pursuit of Happyness

The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) is a drama by Gabriele Muccino you can watch online on iFILM. Will Smith plays Chris Gardner, a salesman whose pricey medical scanners won't sell while the bills pile up and a five-year-old son depends on him.

His wife walks out. Rent goes unpaid, and father and boy lose the apartment. They sleep wherever they can, a shelter one night, a locked train-station bathroom the next. Then a door cracks open: an unpaid internship at a Wall Street brokerage, one slot for twenty candidates. Chris takes it with no margin for error. The son is played by Smith's own child, Jaden, and that real bond shows in every scene.

The film draws on the life of the actual Chris Gardner, who went from homeless to running his own brokerage. The role earned Will Smith his first Academy Award nomination. No melodrama, no easy fixes, just a man who refused to fold. Stream The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) online on iFILM.