Directed by Italian filmmaker Gabriele Muccino (Remember Me, My Love), The Pursuit of Happyness opens in 1981 on Gardner's life as a husband, father and seller of bone-density scanners that few ...

But in The Pursuit of Happyness, which is set in San Francisco in 1981, at the dawn of the age of go-go capitalism, Smith doesn’t just wear a few flecks of gray in his hair.

It was a pursuit of party-going for preemgoers at Columbia’s “The Pursuit of Happyness.” The feel-good film unspooled in Westwood at both the Village and Bruin theaters.

Movie stars don't get much bigger than Will Smith. In December he teamed up with his son, Jaden, for his latest critical and commercial hit, "The Pursuit of Happyness," which makes it's way to ...