Took a long time to get to the happy ending - The Pursuit of Happyness Reviews

It would be disrepectful to not like this movie. The story is based on true events, the little boy is cute, the father is someone you can relate to. My feeling through the whole movie was that I knew it would end on a good note, and when bad thing after bad thing happened, I wanted to happy ending to hurry and get there. I admire the man this is portraying. However, I think we got the idea about 1 hour into it...yep...things were bad, he was in a tough situation. Got it. So why did we have to keep suffering through more and more of it? The happy ending was a bit short. Personally I would have liked seeing a few shots of them living a better life, just for closure.