Getting a toehold on the upwardly mobile ladder looks impossible. The landlord is pounding at the door for outstanding rent money and even the daycare where he leaves his son is rundown and crowded. Buyers for his expensive bone density machines are scarce and double-shifts at the laundry leave his wife Linda (Thandie Newton) exhausted and frustrated.
Yet things so basic seem entirely out of reach for the medical equipment salesman. In Chris Gardner’s (Will Smith) case, it means a decent income and an adequate place to live with his 5-year-old son, Christopher (Jaden Christopher Syre Smith-real life son of Will Smith). But for people stuck on the street, it can be as simple as a warm meal and a place to sleep. Aristotle defined happiness as contemplation.
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