the pursuit of happyness by chris gardner

military, the worst violence I ever saw in my life was in my home.' And I could say honestly, I'm sorry she didn't succeed. 'And the second time she intended to burn down the house that my stepfather was sleeping in. One prison term was for allegedly receiving welfare while working, Gardner said. And it was one of those things that no one ever talked about.'

'And no one explained to me, well, why am I living with this relative, or why am I living with that relative. Gardner's story began in a Milwaukee neighborhood, with a kind of mystery: Why a woman with an incredible smile, a woman who turned out to be his mother, sometimes went missing. Hurt so bad the first time, you didn't need to see it again.' 'I would have never gone back in to take another look. Examining his memories with movie and book writers, Gardner said, placed his life on a different scale. Now Gardner's story is about how a life with much larger stakes than any reality show got turned into a book, and then screenplay. But the gist of it was, being homeless is not a game, and if you think it is, I already won, so send me the money! Haven't heard from him again!' And I can't repeat what I said to the guy.

He's gonna take some homeless people off the street, give them a job, and the one that does the most with their life is going to get a $300,000 house, $100,000 in cash. In the days just after his story was broadcast on '20/20,' Gardner fielded a lot of weird offers related to his rise from homelessness to wealth - including a proposal for a reality show.

Then, after getting himself into a training program and proving he could keep company with the best of them, Gardner became a multimillionaire stockbroker. 'There's a choice: You eat or you stay in a hotel. Gardner used to be homeless, and on rare occasions, he holed up in a public bathroom with his son. The word 'happiness' is deliberately misspelled, just as it was on the wall of a day care center where Gardner once sought care for his own son, Chris Jr., during some of his worst days. 15, and also stars Will Smith's son, Jaden.

The pursuit of happyness by chris gardner