Emily (Rosario Dawson) and Ben (Will Smith) in Seven Pounds (Sony Pictures)

“In 7 days, God created the world.  In 7 seconds, I shattered mine.”
Ben Thomas, Seven Pounds

From the director of The Pursuit of Happyness and starring two-time Academy Award® nominee Will Smith comes the stirring and emotionally suspenseful tale of a man with a haunting secret who sets out to redeem himself by drastically changing the lives of seven total strangers.  Once his plan is set in motion, nothing can alter it.  Or so he thinks.  But what Ben Thomas never expects is that he will fall in love with one of the strangers – and that it is she who will start to change him.

A gripping mystery and surprising love story, Seven Pounds asks provocative questions about life and death, regret and forgiveness, strangers and friendship, love and redemption – and pursues the connections that tie human fates together in surprising ways.

Emily (Rosario Dawson) and Ben (Will Smith) in Seven Pounds (Sony Pictures)

The Story

It begins with a list of seven names: Ben Thomas, Holly Apelgren, Connie Tepos, George Ristuccia, Nicholas Adams, Ezra Turner and Emily Posa. The only thing they share in common are that each has reached a turning point and is in dire need of help, from financial to spiritual to medical – and unbeknownst to them, Ben has carefully chosen each to be part of his plan of redemption.  But it is Emily Posa (Rosario Dawson), a lively cardiac patient, who throws a wrench into the works as she does the one thing Ben thought impossible – grows close to him – and turns his view of the world and what is possible inside out.

Ben (Will Smith) in Seven Pounds (Sony Pictures)

Comment

Have you already watched this movie? Here in Germany it starts in January, but I have read about the US/CA-Start in december already. Is it worth to go to the cinema?