The Persuit of happyness - ****

I went into the cinemas with my good friend heather thinking I was going to see miss potter, however, after a long process of 'you pick' , 'no you pick' we ended up seeing this. One large pepsi return later, I sat in the cinema expecting will smith to be his usual self, and to go through the whole film thinking 'this is will smith, this is will smith' A) I hadn't seen the trailer - always an uncomfortable position to be in B) I paid almost five quid to have that really annoying breed of giggly 13 year old neddy girl sit behind me and laugh through the trailers - I said to myself if this continues, neither her nor I will be laughing.
Low and behold, I really got into it. This was not will smith as we know him, good lawd was he good in this film - convincing and entertaining, not in the funny way however, thank god for me and my giggly companions two rows behind.
His son, his ACTUAL son is in it, and he's bloody brilliant - the wee swine manages to nearly make me cry in the film - the only worrying thing was that he looks nothing like will smith , moving on.
Thilda Swinton (I spell that brainlessly) Is the only dissapointing one - she seems to play the same , angry hard up working class woman all the time, making the same faces and changing her accent just slightly when she talks, she's not in it for that long however, long enough to convince me not to favour her.
This is a film which I think shows you exactly what the worth of a dollar is, I say dollar because it's american by the way, I've never been someone too fussed about money but then again, I've never gone properly skint.
Watch this if you're looking for an uplifting, don't watch it if you're keen on Thilda.