Seven Pounds
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An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
What critics thought
DivisiveCritics largely panned Seven Pounds as a sentimental, logic-defying exercise in manufactured emotion, though audiences responded far more warmly — a gap that remains one of the more striking critic-vs-viewer divides of its era. The deliberate withholding of plot information drew comparisons to art-house filmmaking from at least one prominent defender, while detractors found the same opacity maddening rather than intriguing. Rosario Dawson's performance was one of the few elements that earned consistent praise across positive and negative reviews alike.
“endlessly sentimental fable about sacrifice and redemption that aims only at the heart at the expense of the head”
Todd McCarthy·Variety
“may be among the most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time crazily awful motion pictures ever made”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“shows once again that she has it in her to be the powerhouse”
Mick LaSalle·San Francisco Chronicle
“finds this more interesting than a movie about a man whose nature and objectives are made clear in the first five minutes, in a plot that simply points him straight ahead”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Cast & Crew
Gabriele MuccinoDirector
Will SmithBen
Rosario DawsonEmily
Woody HarrelsonEzra
Michael EalyBen's Brother
Barry PepperDan
Elpidia CarrilloConnie
Robinne LeeSarah
Bill SmitrovichGeorge Ristuccia
Joe NuñezLarry
Sarah Jane MorrisSusan
Connor CruiseYoung Ben
Tim KelleherStewart Goodman
Philippe Le SourdCinematographySeven Pounds
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
What critics thought
DivisiveCritics largely panned Seven Pounds as a sentimental, logic-defying exercise in manufactured emotion, though audiences responded far more warmly — a gap that remains one of the more striking critic-vs-viewer divides of its era. The deliberate withholding of plot information drew comparisons to art-house filmmaking from at least one prominent defender, while detractors found the same opacity maddening rather than intriguing. Rosario Dawson's performance was one of the few elements that earned consistent praise across positive and negative reviews alike.
“endlessly sentimental fable about sacrifice and redemption that aims only at the heart at the expense of the head”
Todd McCarthy·Variety
“may be among the most transcendently, eye-poppingly, call-your-friend-ranting-in-the-middle-of-the-night-just-to-go-over-it-one-more-time crazily awful motion pictures ever made”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“shows once again that she has it in her to be the powerhouse”
Mick LaSalle·San Francisco Chronicle
“finds this more interesting than a movie about a man whose nature and objectives are made clear in the first five minutes, in a plot that simply points him straight ahead”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
Genres
Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Cast & Crew
Gabriele MuccinoDirectorWill SmithBenRosario DawsonEmilyWoody HarrelsonEzraMichael EalyBen's BrotherBarry PepperDanElpidia CarrilloConnieRobinne LeeSarahBill SmitrovichGeorge RistucciaJoe NuñezLarrySarah Jane MorrisSusanConnor CruiseYoung BenTim KelleherStewart GoodmanPhilippe Le SourdCinematographyStream
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