Seven Pounds is a 2008 American drama film, directed by Gabriele Muccino, in which Will Smith stars as a man who sets out to change the lives of seven people. Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, and Barry Pepper also star. The film was released in theaters in the United States and Canada on December 19, 2008, by Columbia Pictures. Despite generally negative reviews from critics it was a box office success, grossing 168,168,201 worldwide.
Two years later, in a bid for atonement, Ben sets out to save the lives of seven good people by donating his own vital organs, a process that will be completed after his planned suicide. A year after the crash, having quit his job as an aeronautical engineer, Tim donates a lung lobe to his brother Ben Michael Ealy, an IRS field agent. He steals his brothers federal IRS identification badge and credentials, puts his picture over Bens, identifies himself by his brothers name, and uses Bens privileges to check out the financial backgrounds of further potential candidates for his donations. In each case he interviews them first to determine if they are good people.In one case, the director of a hospice nursing home facility, who had an unsuccessful bone marrow transplant, seeks a sixmonth extension on his back taxes. Tim is unsure of the mans ethics, because he claims to be insolvent, yet drives a new BMW. To resolve the issue, Tim passionately asks a resident patient, an elderly bedridden woman, to tell him whether he is a good man, only to discover that the man is punishing the woman for refusing to take a new medication by not allowing the nurses to bathe her. ........
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