Columbia Pictures
Escape Artists
Overbrook Entertainment
Relativity Media
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Seven Pounds
Seven names. Seven strangers. One secret.
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
- Original title
- Seven Pounds
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
- $55,000,000
- Revenue
- $168,167,691
CinemaSerf
Dec 27, 2025 · via TMDB
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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Will Smith
Ben
Rosario Dawson
Emily
Woody Harrelson
Ezra Turner
Michael Ealy
Ben's Brother
Barry Pepper
Dan
Elpidia Carrillo
Connie
Robinne Lee
Sarah
Bill Smitrovich
George Ristuccia
Joe Nuñez
Larry
Sarah Jane Morris
Susan
Connor Cruise
Young Ben
Tim Kelleher
Stewart Goodman
Gina Hecht
Dr. Briar
Andy Milder
George's Doctor
Judyann Elder
Holly
Madison Pettis
Connie's Daughter
Octavia Spencer
Kate the Home Health Care Nurse
Robert Ochoa
Choirboy (uncredited)
Bojana Novaković
Julie
Sonya Eddy
Nurse
Leslie A. Pope
Set Decoration
Philippe Le Sourd
Director of Photography
Sharen Davis
Costume Design
John Frazier
Special Effects Coordinator
Eddie Braun
Stunt Coordinator
Steve Hart
Stunt Double
Henry Kingi
Stunts
William Washington
Stunts
Gabriele Muccino
Director
Conrad E. Palmisano
Second Unit Director
Hughes Winborne
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Angela Demo
Casting
Denise Chamian
Casting
Sabrina Hyman
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Domenico Procacci
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Ken Stovitz
Executive Producer
James Lassiter
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Jason Blumenthal
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