Pursuit of Happyness is mild tearjerker

I'm glad we had the opportunity to squeeze in movie-watching time this weekend. And I'm glad we saw Pursuit of Happyness starring Will Smith and his kid Jaden.

A friend of mine (and my wife's) said it's a tearjerker - mildly - I should say. It is the (true) story of Chris Gardner, who's trying his best to keep his life from falling apart and does so with his kid tagged along minus the wife, and later on succeeded in landing on a lucrative job that initially paid no salary for internship. The mostly downs (sleeping at a public toilet, losing a shoe, his scanner getting stolen, lining up for sleeping quarters) of the movie will make you want to wet many tissues.

It's good that Will Smith has taken acting seriously (I still see him as the rapper and jokester though) specially in this film that made our eyes slightly watery.