Will Smith and his real-life son Jaden Smith star in The Pursuit of Happyness about the personal triumph of real-life person Chris Gardner.

In 1981, Chris Gardner was a struggling salesman in little needed medical bone density scanners while his wife toiled in double shifts to support the family including their young son, Christopher. In the face of this difficult life, Chris has the desperate inspiration to try for a stockbroker internship where one in twenty has a chance of a lucrative full time career. Even when his wife leaves him because of this choice, Chris clings to this dream with his son even when the odds become more daunting by the day. Together, father and son struggle through homelessness, jail time, tax seizure and the overall punishing despair in a quest that would make Gardner a respected millionaire.

Watching what they had to go through on a daily basis to get by was tough. Overall The Pursuit of Happyness can be a downer. There are plenty of trials and tribulations, but of course they come through in the end which redeems the film.

Oh, and it features Rubik’s Cubes.