![]() endless scenes of Will Smith chasing somebody through the streets, showing his genius by figuring out a Rubik\'s cube) over arguably more relevant events (e.g. we get so little a sense of why Gardner is chosen above the other interns in the end). As for the tough life of poverty, this film parades the best poverty movie money can buy, recreating the period in style, bathing Gardner and his son in soft afternoon light as they aspire to better things, smoothing over the rough edges of the locations. Nonetheless, despite being overproduced at the expense of the story, the film communicates powerfully to people: I\'ve been chased out of many a house for suggesting that it\'s anything but the most moving story to come out of Hollywood in a while. In the hands of the right writer and director team, this is a film that probably wouldn\'t have needed to lean much on music at all. But since the film is the sort that books an appearance on Oprah, there is plenty of music, very little of it saying anything deep about the film. ![]() Andrea Guerra\'s music for the most part participates in softening the edges of being down and out in early eighties San Francisco. ![]()
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