My girlfriend is reading “Pursuit of Happyness“.
Three quarters of the way through the book, her comment was, “Geez, I wish they’d get to the good part. He’s not even homeless yet.”
Ah, the things Hollywood makes entertaining for us. 😉
To be fair, I know what she really meant. The movie took a lot of liberties with the story. Page through the book some time next time you are in the bookstore. The “meat” of the movie was about a father trying to make ends meet and survive as a single parent with his son – and he went through a traumatic time being homeless. So, that really was the “good”, or more apt “touching”, part of the story. Very different from the true events of the book.