… And the Pursuit of Happiness
… And the Pursuit of Happiness

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After acknowledging his own immigrant background, Malle, tries to present the range of immigrant experiences in the US during the 1980's. In an attempt to be comprehensive, the film includes interviews with migrant workers and illegal entrants along the Mexican border, conversations with an enterprising Indian motel owner, coverage of industrious African and Asian families in the cities, an extensive interview with the first Costa Rican astronaut, visits with Cuban exiles in ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in … And the Pursuit of Happiness:

Louis Malle
Derek Walcott
José R. Somoza

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After acknowledging his own immigrant background, Malle, tries to present the range of immigrant experiences in the US during the 1980's. In an attempt to be comprehensive, the film includes interviews with migrant workers and illegal entrants along the Mexican border, conversations with an enterprising Indian motel owner, coverage of industrious African and Asian families in the cities, an extensive interview with the first Costa Rican astronaut, visits with Cuban exiles in Miami, several conversations with West Indian poet Derek Walcott, an extended portrait of the deposed Nicaraguan General Samoza (the surviving brother of Anastasio Somoza Debayle) and his extended family. The film finishes with a brief visit to the Russian Jewish community in Brooklyn, NY to tie in with the centenary of the Statue of Liberty.

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User Review - 10/10 by Ecy RSurprisingly excellent Louis Malle doc that is a kind of survey of various immigrants to the US.
User Review - 10/10 by Pratik TAwesome movie!! I almost had tears in my eyes!! actually... I had...!
User Review - 10/10 by Private UI haven't watched this one yet, but Flixster doesn't have a page for God's Country, which IS what I watched. 5 stars may be excessive, but I've got no complaints and I loved it. A must for fans of grass rootsy style documentaries. The kind Les Blank makes.
User Review - 8/10 by Maarrk HCan immigrants achieve the material well-being and individual freedom the American Dream promises in exchange for hard work? Malle finds the answer is mostly affirmative, without ever being idealistic, though the path is not the same for all. Those foreigners most enterprising and skilled are proud to call the U.S. home, thankful for the realized opportunity to make their own success. Most start at the bottom, but eventually succeed academically or build companies and prosper, passing the acquired social capital on to their mostly-Americanized children. Others drift across the border fleeing poverty and lack of work, succumbing to hard physical labor and squalid living conditions for a menial improvement in wage. Nevertheless, America draws these people from all walks because the incentive is the same: it provides a better life, though it appears to do so to varying degrees. The film only briefly touches on the problem of multicultural policy (black residents of a housing complex are put off by the influx of Vietnamese immigrants and the pungent aroma of their cuisine), but at least portrays the "melting pot" as somewhat of a myth. American-born kindergarteners of immigrants are taught their parents' native tongue, and everywhere people seem to maintain the culture of their homeland, be it Cubans celebrating in the streets of Miami, Muslims praying at a mosque in Texas, or the Hindu temple in one family's suburban kitchen.
User Review - 6/10 by Walter M"And the Pursuit of Happiness" is a documentary from Louis Malle wherein he travels the United States from Florida to Nebraska to California to explore the issue of immigration. Along the way, he talks to people from a wide variety of walks of life from day laborers to a dictator who have come to the United States for many different reasons.(And it is cool that Malle had the foresight to talk to somebody like Franklin Chang Diaz, a space shuttle astronaut, who would one day have his own wikipedia page.) But with the exception of those from Cambodia, Vietnam, Soviet Union, Cuba and El Salvador being refugees at the tail end of the Cold War, this is pretty basic stuff, especially taking into account the lack of personal perspective from Malle, himself a relative newcomer to the United States.

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