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The Pursuit of Happyness
Movie

The Pursuit of Happyness(2006)

8
tomato67%
PG_13
117Minutes

In 1981, in San Francisco, the smart salesman and family man Chris Gardner invests the family savings in Osteo National bone-density scanners, an apparatus twice as expensive as an x-ray machine but with a slightly clearer image. This white elephant financially breaks the family, bringing troubles to his relationship with his wife Linda, who leaves him and moves to New York where she has taken a job in a pizza parlor. Their son Christopher stays with Chris because he and his wife both know that he will be able to take better care of him. Without any money or a wife, but committed to his son, Chris sees a chance to fight for a stockbroker internship position at Dean Witter, offering a more promising career at the end of a six-month unpaid training period. During that period, Chris goes through a lot of hardship personally and professionally. When he thinks he is stable, he finds that he has lost $600 when the government takes the last bit of money in his bank account for taxes. He is rendered homeless because he can't pay his rent. He is forced at one point to stay in a bathroom at a train station, and must scramble from work every day to the Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, which offers shelter to the homeless. He must leave work early every day so that he is there by 5:00 in the evening along with his son so that he may be assured of a place to sleep. He is seen carrying his suitcase to work because he doesn't have a home. At work, there are nineteen other candidates for the one position. One day, he is called into an office and in it were the heads of Dean Witter. Chris thinks that he is about to be told the job will not be his as he says that he wore a shirt and tie for his final day. Then they tell him that he has been an excellent trainee and that tomorrow he will have to wear his shirt and tie again as it will be his first day as a broker. Chris struggles to hold back tears. Outside he begins to cry as the busy people of San Francisco walk past him. He rushes to his son's daycare, hugging him and knowing that after everything him and his son had been through things would be all right. The final scene shows Chris walking with his son down a street. His son is telling him a joke, when a wealthy business man in a suit walks past. Chris looks back as the man continues on. The man in the suit is none other than the real Chris Gardner.

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The Wedding Veil
Movie

The Wedding Veil(2022)

7.3
84Minutes

Three best friends find a late-nineteenth century Italian bridal veil during an annual girls' weekend getaway. Enchanted by its legend, they purchase it together, despite not being close to getting married. Avery, the first to possess the veil, is vying for a promotion at the museum where she works. As she plans the museum's gala with Peter, a handsome man she met in San Francisco, their relationship is affected by his changing emotions, the refurbishment of a lost painting, and the power of the veil.

Windjammer
Movie

Windjammer(1937)

5.5
60Minutes

The fourth and last of the George A. Hirliman-produced films starring George O'Brien (preceded by "Daniel Boone", "Park Avenue Logger" and "Hollywood Cowboy") that were distributed by RKO Radio. Hirliman sold O'Brien's contract to RKO, which then produced 18 series westerns starring O'Brien that ended when O'Brien went into the Navy at the outbreak of WW II. Long-time (past and future) O'Brien director David Howard served as Hirliman's Associate Producer on this film. "Windjammer" finds O'Brien as a subpoena server ordered to serve a subpoena on Brandon Evans (The Commondore) for a senate inquiry or lose his job. Posing as a playboy, he boards the Commodore's yacht during a yacht race, and the yacht is wrecked by a gun-running windjammer commanded by Captain Morgan (William Hall.) All hands are picked up by the windjammer, including the Commodore's daughter (played by Constance Worth) and put to work as galley slaves.

Chan Is Missing
Movie

Chan Is Missing(1982)

7.1
tomato96%
NR
76Minutes

Chan Is Missing is a comedy-drama film that follows a Chinese-American taxi driver named Jo as he searches for his missing friend Chan. Set in San Francisco's Chinatown, Jo navigates through a web of cultural differences, family relationships, and the immigrant experience to uncover the truth behind Chan's disappearance.

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The Hatchet Man
Movie

The Hatchet Man(1932)

6.2
74Minutes

In San Francisco's Chinatown, a hatchet man seeks revenge against a rival tong after being framed for murder. He navigates a world of opium, gang wars, and drug addiction while facing personal and moral dilemmas.

Mr. Wong, Detective
Movie

Mr. Wong, Detective(1938)

6
70Minutes

In Mr. Wong, Detective (1938), the famous Asian detective, Mr. Wong, is on a mission to solve a murder mystery involving a secret formula and an international spy. With the backdrop of San Francisco's Chinatown and the Golden Gate Bridge, Mr. Wong navigates deception, danger, and racial stereotypes to uncover the truth.

The Chinese Ring
Movie

The Chinese Ring(1947)

5.8
68Minutes

When a Chinese princess is kidnapped, Charlie Chan must navigate the streets of Chinatown to uncover the truth behind the crime. With the help of his comical sidekick and a determined woman reporter, Charlie Chan races against time to solve the murder and rescue the princess.

Shadows Over Chinatown
Movie

Shadows Over Chinatown(1946)

6.6
64Minutes

When a crime occurs in Chinatown, a detective must navigate the cultural complexities and overcome yellowface stereotypes to solve the case.

The San Francisco Story
Movie

The San Francisco Story(1952)

6
80Minutes

After five years of being away, Rick Nelson (Joel McCrea) returns to San Francisco to find it filled with corruption - and crooked politicians. It isn't until he meets a beautiful San Franciscan (Yvonne De Carlo), that Nelson decides to get involved with bringing law-and-order to the city by the bay!

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