Any time you encounter a Will Smith movie, he's valiantly fighting to save the world from something. In The Pursuit Of Happyness, it's different. He's valiantly fighting to save himself.
Movies featuring Will Smith usually pit him as an energetic, wise cracking hero amid a bunch of aliens and special effects. But perhaps it is because of - or in spite of - this pedigree that Smith manages to surprise us with a remarkably low-key and touching performance as a down on his luck single father trying to make ends meet for his family.
