{"id":657,"date":"2007-05-15T16:52:03","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T16:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/15\/gabriele-muccino-on-the-pursuit-of-happyness\/"},"modified":"2007-05-15T18:21:35","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T18:21:35","slug":"gabriele-muccino-on-the-pursuit-of-happyness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2007\/05\/15\/gabriele-muccino-on-the-pursuit-of-happyness\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriele Muccino on The Pursuit of Happyness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B000O59B42\/203-9363106-9849563?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B000O59B42\"><strong>The Pursuit of Happyness<\/strong><\/a> is out this week on DVD and tells the remarkable true life tale of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Christopher_Gardner\">Chris Gardner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He was a salesman in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco\">San Francisco<\/a> during the early 80s and battled through numerous personal and financial hardships as he tried to become a stockbroker.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Will_Smith\">Will Smith<\/a> was nominated for an Oscar for his portrayal of Gardner in the lead role and was instrumental in hiring Italian director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0610831\/\">Gabriele Muccino<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/gabriele-directing-will-smith-on-set.JPG\" title=\"gabriele-directing-will-smith-on-set.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/gabriele-directing-will-smith-on-set.JPG\" title=\"Gabriele directing Will Smith on set\" alt=\"Gabriele directing Will Smith on set\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spoke with Gabriele about the film around its UK release in January and you can listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/get.php?fla=podcast-2007-05-15-72834.mp3]\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\">Subscribe to the Interview Podcast via iTunes<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/podcast\/get.php?web=podcast-2007-05-15-72357.mp3\">Download the interview as an MP3 file<\/a> (just right click, save as and rename the file)<br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B000O59B42\/203-9363106-9849563?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=filmdetail-21&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;camp=1634&amp;creativeASIN=B000O59B42\">Buy The Pursuit of Happyness on DVD from Amazon UK<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy of Columbia Pictures<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pursuit of Happyness is out this week on DVD and tells the remarkable true life tale of Chris Gardner. He was a salesman in San Francisco during the early 80s and battled through numerous personal and financial hardships as he tried to become a stockbroker. Will Smith was nominated for an Oscar for his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}