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The Pursuit of Happyness
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The Pursuit of Happyness

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  • A close-up portrait of Chris Gardner with his hands raised in an expressive gesture.
    Chris Gardner
    / Memoir, film adaptation, and later career

    …and path into finance in The Pursuit of Happyness, published in 2006. The memoir became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a film of the same name released that year, with Will Smith portraying Gardner and Smith’s son, Jaden, playing young Christopher. The next year Smith received…

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    …and path into finance in The Pursuit of Happyness, published in 2006. The memoir became a New York Times bestseller and was adapted into a film of the same name released that year, with Will Smith portraying Gardner and Smith’s son, Jaden, playing young Christopher. The next year Smith received…

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