Question: I saw [*The Pursuit Of Happyness* (2006)](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454921/) three times but I can't understand what was the actual happiness? 

Can anybody help me?

Answer: 
The title of the movie actually comes from a sign at the day care that his son went to. Chris (Smith) complains to the teacher that the word "Happiness" is misspelled.

Later on, Chris explains: 

> 
> It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on
>  the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life,
>  liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did
>  he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is
>  something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have
>  it. No matter what. How did he know that?
> 
> 
> 

The happiness that Chris pursues is the luxury that he sees; the box seats at a 49ers game, the mansions, the nice cars. He wants all of this for himself and for his son, especially after tasting homelessness.
**Chris himself says it in the movie**

> 
> It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson on the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking how did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue and maybe we can actually never have it. No matter what. How did he know that?
> 
> 
> 

Pursuit of Happiness is like something which we have to get and it is a kind of thing which must be pursued; we don't simply get it.

In the title itself it suggests that Chris pursues the happiness because what we do in our life for earning ultimately our goal is to get the happiness in the end. Also, happiness is kind of something which can be started from the inside of yourself.