they just do not make many this good . the audience and i cry and laugh and cheer and applaud . the climactic scene be a powerful and cathartic a the shawshank redemption golden moment . will smith be terrific and his son jaden be just perfect and and thandie newton put in a convincing support act . the movie 1980s san francisco be absorb and authentic without steal the show . best of all and if you be a thinker and this movie will challenge your vision of family and business and society . on one hand and the film reinforce the great american myth of the self make man and equal opportunity . myth be not necessarily false simply for be myth we can make some of them true by choice and and our belief in this myth still help make america great . free market capitalism be not the cure to all ill surely it be the source of many ill but it do open social door that nothing else can even budge . on the other hand and if you can leave this movie without a burning indignation that any american child of any race should have to struggle just to have a place to sleep and you must be cynical indeed . this movie doesn not get on a soapbox and not even for a second it just tell a real life story that own you before you know it . i hope a few of u will let our motivation own u for year instead of hour after the movie over .