Introduction
In 1981, in San Francisco, Chris Gardner (Will Smith) is a smart salesman and family man . Yet he is struggling financially in his life. He invests all family savings in Osteo National bone-density scanners, an apparatus twice as expensive as an x-ray machine but with a slightly clearer image. He sells them personally to physicians. Despite being a better product than x-rays machines, they are also far more expensive, meaning that they are an unnecessary luxury for most physicians. He needs to sell three scanners per month just to meet the basic necessities to support his family, his wife, Linda, and their five year old son, Christopher. Their child Christopher is studying in kindergarden. They are a poor family and with a low monthly income. Their total monthly income can only pay the tax and kindergarden fee tightly. But lately, he doesn’t sell one still three months. So his wife Linda has to work two jobs doing manual work at a laundry for maintaining their livings. But it’s still not enough to pay the basic costs, three months rent. Chris can't afford to pay his parking ticket, meaning that he has to take the bus everywhere. Finally, the family breaks up, the relationship between him and his wife Linda ( Thandiwe Newton) has big troubles . One day, Linda leaves them because she cannot put up with this kind of life anymore. She moves to New York where she has taken a job in a pizza parlor. Their son Christopher (Jaden Smith) stays with Chris because he and his wife both believe that he will be able to take care of him.
Without any money or a wife, but committed to his son, Chris sees a chance to fight for a stockbroker internship position at Dean Witter, offering a more promising career at the end of a six-month unpaid training period. However, during that period, only one of twenty internships will be chosen at the end of the internship. Chris