The Pursuit of Happyness

Based on the life of Chris Gardner, a self-made millionaire, the film centers around a man who finds himself jobless and homeless at age 30, living in a San Francisco train station with his infant son. Determined to beat the odds, he finds work as a trainee at a brokerage.

Starring Will Smith as Chris Gardner and Smith's real-life son Jaden Christopher Syre Smith as Gardner's son Christopher, The Pursuit of Happyness follows Gardner's struggles to break into the stock brokerage business as an intern, despite a rocky financial situation.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pursuit_of_Happyness
http://movies.go.com/the-pursuit-of-happyness/d768895/drama

Stranger than Fiction

Everybody knows that your life is a story. But what if a story was your life?

Harold Crick is your average IRS agent: monotonous, boring,and repetitive. But one day this all changes when Harold begins to hear a voice inside his head narrating his life. The narrator is extraordinarily accurate, and Harold soon discovers that he is the main character in a novel-in-progress and that the voice belongs to an eccentric author famous for killing her main characters in creative ways…

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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420223/plotsummary

Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesday with Morrie is a TV movie adaptation of Mitch Albom’s "Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man and Life's Greatest Lesson." It is the true story of the author's weekly meetings with Morrie Schwartz (played by Jack Lemmon), a retired college professor who suffers from Lou Gehrig 's disease. The film focuses on Mitch's struggle to find the meaning of life, while his former mentor succumbs slowly to death.

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http://family.go.com/entertainment/article-83138-Movie-Review--Tuesdays-with-Morrie-t/?CMP=KNC-YahSSPFamily

Charlotte’s Web

Fern is one of only two living beings who sees that Wilbur is a special animal, while she raises him into a terrific and radiant pig. As Wilbur moves into a new barn, he begins a second profound friendship with the most unlikely of creatures--a spider named Charlotte--and their bond inspires the animals around them to come together as a family. When the word gets out that Wilbur's days are numbered, it seems that only a miracle will save his life. A determined Charlotte--who sees miracles in the ordinary--spins words into her web in an effort to convince the farmer that Wilbur is "some pig" and worth saving. An inspiring story of loyalty, trust and friendship.

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http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1808645849/details