Perhaps the most devastating scene in cinema history. Locked in a locked public bathroom at a BART station (Glide Memorial Church shelter is full), Gardner holds his sleeping son on his lap. As a man pounds on the door from the outside, Gardner cries silently, holding his son’s ear so he doesn't wake up. It is a masterclass in silent acting from Will Smith.
Despite sleeping in a church shelter, a bathroom at a BART station, and a motel, Gardner lands an unpaid internship at the brokerage firm Dean Witter Reynolds. The internship accepts only 1 in 20 candidates for a paid position. With no income and a toddler to care for, Gardner studies at night by the dim light of the shelter. The Pursuit Of Happyness Movie Netflix