![]() Varèse Sarabande released the soundtrack on January 9, 2007, which included sixteen tracks. Gardner and Will acknowledge each other Will then looks back at Gardner walking away as his son proceeds to tell him knock knock jokes. Gardner makes a cameo appearance in the film, walking past Will and Jaden in the final scene. However, he said his daughter Jacintha "set him straight" by saying, "If Smith can play Muhammad Ali, he can play you!" Filming CastingĬhris Gardner reportedly thought Smith, an actor best known for his performances in action movies, was miscast to play him. as a five year-old, Gardner's son was just a toddler at the time. Certain details and events that actually took place over the span of several years were compressed into a relatively short time and although eight-year-old Jaden portrayed Chris Jr. The movie took some liberties with Gardner's true life story. He published his autobiography on May 23, 2006, and later became an associate producer for the film. ![]() CastĬhris Gardner realized his story had Hollywood potential after an overwhelming national response to an interview he did with 20/20 in January 2002. The epilogue reveals that Chris went on to form his own multi-million dollar brokerage firm. ![]() They walk down the street, joking with each other and are passed by a man in a business suit (the real Chris Gardner in a cameo). Fighting back tears, he rushes to his son's daycare, hugging him. His work has paid off and he is offered the position. ![]() Regardless of his challenges, Chris never reveals his lowly circumstances to his co-workers, even going so far as to lend one of his bosses five dollars for a cab, a sum he can't afford.Ĭoncluding his internship, Chris is called into a meeting with his managers. One sympathetic prospect takes him and his son to a San Francisco 49ers game. He also reaches out to potential high value customers, defying protocol. Chris finds the bone scanner that he lost in the subway station from a demented man who believes it to be a time machine and it is now damaged, but Chris finally repairs it.ĭisadvantaged by his limited work hours, and knowing that maximizing his client contacts and profits is the only way to earn the one paid position that he and his 19 competitors are fighting for, Chris develops a number of ways to make phone sales calls more efficiently. Due to demand for the limited rooms, Chris must frantically race from his internship work early each afternoon in order to land a place in line. The church's owner does not let him stay due to the fact that it is for women and children, although she tells him about a local church that also provides shelter, but has very limited space. Motivation drives him to find the Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, which has a homeless shelter primarily for single mothers and their children. As a result they are homeless, and are forced at one point to stay in a bathroom at a subway station. Chris is further set back when his bank account is garnished by the IRS for unpaid income taxes, and he and his young son are evicted. ![]() This new relationship with the Dean Witter manager earns him the chance to become an intern stockbroker.ĭespite arriving there unkempt and shabbily dressed due to an emergency, Chris is offered the internship. Chris does not have enough money for the cab fare and flees into a subway station where he barely escapes the cab driver but loses one of his bone scanners in the process. While downtown trying to sell one of his scanners, Chris meets a manager for Dean Witter and impresses him by solving a Rubik's Cube during a short cab ride. Their son Christopher ( Jaden Smith) remains with his father. The investment proves to be a white elephant, which financially breaks the family and as a result, his wife Linda ( Thandie Newton) leaves him and moves to New York. In 1981 San Francisco, Chris Gardner ( Will Smith) invests his family's savings in portable bone-density scanners which he tries to demonstrate and sell to doctors. ![]()
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