Couch Potato Pickings
On Sky Movies Family tonight at 10.15pm
If you visited Movie Talk last week, you may have come across the first of my movie pickings to offer inspiration and comfort during the doom and gloom of the recession. Continuing the theme, this week I’ve chosen tonight’s rags-to-riches drama, which is also based on a true story.
It’s set in early 1980s San Francisco, and stars Will Smith as a struggling salesman who is left alone to look after his five-year-old son when his wife leaves home. Determined to make a better life for himself and his son, he takes an unpaid six-month internship at a stockbroking firm but has to overcome poverty and homelessness as he pursues his American dream of wealth and success.
It may be a heartwarming true story but this treakly film certainly didn’t make me find happyness. Will, I’m very disappoynted in you.