He's doing everything he can, and he has a son he is raising on his own. He finds both on the streets of San Francisco - circa 1981, in this case, but some things don't change - and he films them in a way that we're always aware: Our hero works hard. In other words, it all feels real.Gabriele Muccino "L'Ultimo Bacio" directed it, and his fine Italian hand can be detected in Andrea Guerra's score, with its Italianate wistfulness and whimsicality, and in Muccino's very European enjoyment of American poverty and desperation. Instead, this success story follows the pattern most common in life - it chronicles a series of soul-sickening failures and defeats, missed opportunities, sure things that didn't quite happen, all of which are accompanied by a concomitant accretion of barely perceptible victories that gradually amount to something. In its outlines, it's nothing like the usual success story depicted on screen, in which, after a reasonable interval of disappointment, success arrives wrapped in a ribbon and a bow. It may have seemed that way from the trailer: Will Smith tells his son, "Don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't do something - even me." But in context, even that moment isn't cloying. Chamberlain, Kimberly Contreras, James Cotner, Alexander Cukor, Zachary Culbertson, Bill Dietz, Ryan Else, Travis Fields, Yeena Fisher, Garrett Forbes, Ben Fritz, Chris Gardner, Daryl Anthony Harper, David Alan Hodges, David Kiiskinen, Shawn Kresal, Brendan Kruse, Mark Lavell, Tyler MacNiven, Tommy Maples, David Pearl, Steve Potts, Rob 'Captain Rob' Robinson, John Patrick Shulak, Donn Andrew Simmons, William Paul Smith, Phil Talsky, Adam Wang, Cindy Warner, Kumar, The Glide Ensemble, Jerry Edward McLilly, Shareef Allman, Jeffrey Moon, Peaches Hutchinson, Brandon Deadwiler, Tateanna Wheeler-Lezine, Karen Kahn, Alissa Anderegg, Martin Andris, Elise Angell, Regina Antoinette, Phil Austin, Rick Camp, Doug Campbell, Stefano Capone, Brad Carr, Molly Celaschi, Cabran E. Starcast: Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Thandie Newton, Brian Howe, James Karen, Dan Castellaneta, Kurt Fuller, Takayo Fischer, Kevin West, George Cheung, David Michael Silverman, Domenic Bove, Geoff Callan, Joyful Raven, Scott Klace, Rashida Clendening, Eric Schniewind, Peter Fitzsimmons, Maurice Sherbanee, Zuhair Haddad, Victor Raider-Wexler, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Darryl Fong, George Maguire, Joe Nunez, Adam Del Rio, Rocky LaRochelle, Erin Beers, Rueben Grundy, Ming Lo, John Kovacevich, Bonnie Akimoto, Stu Klitsner, Esther Scott, Tina D'Elia, Cecil Williams, David Fine, George Moffatt, Amir Talai, Mike Garibaldi, Jason Frazier, Kevin Crook, David Haines, James Finnerty, Abigail Van Alyn, Bob Greene, Robert Anthony Peters, Terri Orth-Pallavicini, John Robb, Daniel Wilder, Cathy Fithian, Keith Stevenson, Jeff Applebaum, Victor Hoagland, Richard Bischoff, Edward Donlin, Larry Hunt, Rose Aispuro, Arbin C.
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