Seven Pounds (2008)

★ 7.6 2h 3m 7,183 votes IMDb
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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.

Seven Pounds

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Cast

Will Smith
Will Smith as Ben Age 57 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Willard Carroll Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor and rapper. Known for variety of roles, Smith has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film...
Rosario Dawson
Rosario Dawson as Emily Age 46 · New York City, New York, USA Rosario Isabel Dawson (born May 9, 1979) is an American actress and activist. She made her feature-film debut in the 1995 independent drama Kids. Her subsequent film roles include He Got Game (1998), ...
Woody Harrelson
Woody Harrelson as Ezra Turner Age 64 · Midland, Texas, USA Woodrow Tracy "Woody" Harrelson (born July 23, 1961) is an American actor. He first became known for his role as bartender Woody Boyd on the NBC sitcom Cheers (1985–1993), for which he won a Primetime...
Michael Ealy
Michael Ealy as Ben's Brother Age 52 · Washington, District of Columbia, USA Michael Brown (born August 3, 1973), professionally known as Michael Ealy, was born on August 3, 1973 in Silver Spring, Maryland. He attended SpringbrookHigh School and the University of Maryland, Col...
Barry Pepper
Barry Pepper as Dan Age 56 · Cambell River, British Columbia, Canada Barry Robert Pepper is a Canadian actor. He is best known for roles such as Private Daniel Jackson in Saving Private Ryan, Sergeant Michael Strank in Flags of Our Fathers, Dean Stanton in The Green Mi...
Elpidia Carrillo
Elpidia Carrillo as Connie Age 64 · Paracuaro, Michoacan, Mexico ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Elpidia Carrillo (born August 16, 1961) is a Mexican actress who has appeared in various acclaimed Latin-American films and television shows, in addition to...

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CinemaSerf 7/10 Dec 27, 2025
We know that “Tim” (Will Smith) was involved in a car accident that saw his fiancée and six others killed. Now, six months later, he quits his well-paid engineering job and determines to do what he can to help make seven people’s lives better. Firstly, he helps his younger brother (“Ben”) with a partial lung transplant, and then he adopts his IRS inspector identity to help out “Emily” (Rosario Dawson) who has got herself $50k in the hole with Uncle Sam. He isn’t cavalier about whom he helps, indeed he goes to quite some effort to select those he wants to assist - and it’s a far from traditional sort of aid that he offers, too. Part of his liver goes to childcare worker “Holly”, then a kidney to “George”. Bone marrow (ouch!) to a young lad and then then thanks to “Holly” he encounters “Connie” (Elpedia Carrillo). She is having a very hard time with her abusive boyfriend. His solution to her predicament is magnanimous and sees him, and his pet jellyfish, take up residence in a grotty motel where he continues to selectively dispense what's left of his largesse. “Ezra” (Woody Harrelson) is a blind telesales man, a vegetarian who sells meat, and a man who appears to have the patience of a saint. “Tim” is still clearly struggling with the grief of the accident and it’s ensuing guilt and loneliness and he has a plan to deal with this - the snag, however, is that he hadn’t factored in his new relationship with “Emily”. Aside from helping her with her huge debt, she also has an heart condition and as he spends more time weeding her unkempt garden, romance blooms. Will it offer him some salvation of his own, or is he too set on his own path? It’s quite a touching story that allows Smith to prove that he’s actually capable of some nuanced acting for a change. He delivers well here as does Dawson but for me, it's the sparing role from Harrelson that stole this for me and again it proves that he, too, can play a convincing character in an engaging less-is-more style. I also liked the fact that the denouement, indeed the whole film, kept clear of sentiment as this "Tim" makes something unique from his own version of a “living will”. It’s a compelling film to watch with a collection of fine supporting performances, and not at all what I was expecting.

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