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hit me up...show love an ill return it ;-)...hit da page an da blogs up 2!!!.....0n3. Burbank, California—One of last year's best pictures, The Pursuit of Happyness, premieres on DVD later this month and the disc is a keeper. The movie, fueled by Steve Conrad's strong script, dramatizes one parent's heartbreaking reach for the best within.

He's played by Will Smith, who provides narration in character as a father whose weary wife (Thandie Newton, hanging by a thread that thins with each scene) abdicates her responsibility to husband and child, leaving them to face hardship after hardship. The Pursuit of Happyness, based on events in Chris Gardner's life, casts Smith as a man attempting a remarkable realignment of his values, his goals and his life.

In a time before cellular phones and voice mail, struggling father and aspiring businessman Gardner (with Smith's son, Christopher, as his kid) aims to think his way out of poverty, adopting the optimism inspired by a Founding Father's noble phrase from the Declaration of Independence. "How did Thomas Jefferson know to put pursuit in?" the destitute Gardner wonders, embracing the idea that happiness is earned.

The Pursuit of Happyness deserves every second of an emotional and thoroughly involving progression, which takes Gardner from ditching taxi fares through a top internship and, possibly, a job. The capitalist is finally portrayed without malice; men of profit pull for Gardner from the beginning—as an act of benevolence, not charity—whether encouraging him when he's working a Rubik's Cube or helping him find a shoe when he's literally knocked off his feet.

Hippies, moochers and the Internal Revenue Service are the movie's villains, looting Gardner's property and incessantly disrupting his forward march. This is what life's like for too many men—who are often hurt, demoralized and lost in a welfare state that favors women and children—yet guys like Gardner strive to be honorable. As he cold calls his...