The Pursuit of Happyness is really bad. Will Smith's inspirational moment is going to the New York Stock Exchange and seeing all the happy rich guys in suits walking around, and wanting to be like them. Having to do stuff like brown-nose executives, sleep in train station bathrooms and pull his son out of daycare due to lack of money are presented not as flaws of the system but evidence of Smith's smart bootstraps-oriented thinking. This movie is the Mein Kampf of liberalism.
That's exactly it, it was never about speaking truth to power nearly as much as sneering at "yokels". There is another scene that I think is from that movie where he's in just the tiniest, shittiest church I've seen in my entire life just harassing the handful of people who are there for believing in God, and I think that planted the seed for my outgrowing New Atheism far before I could ever articulate it. His behavior is just so revolting and hateful there.