He considers his options, weighs his sinking bank balance against his dreams, and decides to give it a shot.Īnswer: The shelter is first-come, first-served, so he must race there every afternoon to get beds. He's offered a coveted position in the internship program, but realizes during the interview that the six-month internship is unpaid. 'I'd say he must have had really great pants,' Chris replies.)

('What would you say if a man came in here without a shirt, and I hired him?' asks the chairman of the company. Considering the value of first impressions, it looks as though everything is lost when he shows up for the interview dressed as a housepainter, but he manages to carry it off with candor, charm and wit. It had taken a great deal of dedication to line this interview up Chris had gone so far as to get into the internship director's taxi and prove his intellectual mettle by solving a Rubik's cube during the ride. That leaves just 45 minutes to get to the Financial District and the interview, and nowhere near enough time to change into a suit or clean the dried paint off his trousers and undershirt.

At the police station, he writes a check for the balance - there's just enough to cover it - but he's held until the check clears at 9:30 in the morning. Answer: While he was painting the day before, he'd been arrested for failure to pay parking tickets and held overnight in jail.Ĭhris's car was impounded for failure to pay parking tickets early in the movie, but the debt remains.

Christopher the pursuit of happyness