Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a single dad who has to support and care for a young child. Impressing...

Terminally nerdy Dizzy Harrison is routinely laughed at, ridiculed and picked on. His senior year is nothing but an exercise in pain and torture. After purposely getting expelled from school, he enrolls in a rival school with a new look, a new story and a new attitude. But when his past re-surfaces and threatens to expose the real Dizzy, he must rise to the occasion to show the world exactly what he's all about.