Seven Pounds (2008)

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Academy Award® nominee Will Smith reunites with the directors and producers of "The Pursuit of Happyness" for the emotional drama "Seven Pounds." In the film, Smith plays Ben Thomas, an IRS agent with a fateful secret who embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

The film

The movie starts out with the main character, Ben Thomas (Will Smith), making a 911 call to report a suicide. When dispatch asks who the victim is, Ben responds, "I am." Then goes through a series of flashback stories to show how he got to that point.

Early in the story, Ben is shown on the phone trying to start a fight with a blind telemarketer and pianist named Ezra Turner (Woody Harrelson). Despite attempts by Ben to infuriate him, Ezra does not fight back while taking some of Ben's stinging abuse and then hangs up the phone. Ben then recites the names of seven seemingly random people, and then smashes a wood chair on a table in a fit of rage.

The movie then flashes back to the start of Ben's journey. He is an IRS agent who uses his position of power to get close to people and learn more about them. First on his journey he finds Stewart Goodman (Tim Kelleher), whom he encounters in a room of an elderly woman who will not speak or allow Goodman to touch her. It is revealed that Goodman is past due on his taxes due to his medical bills, (he is in need for a bone marrow transplant). He asks for a six month extension, to which Ben asks Goodman if that was his brand new car he spotted when first entering the clinic.

Ben tells Stewart he will be in touch and leaves, making a short trip to the elderly patient's room, where he asks if Goodman was a "good person". After Ben convinces her to trust him, she reveals through writing that Goodman forces her to take a drug against her will, and he doesn't allow her to bathe. When Ben carries her out of the room and demands for her to be washed, she speaks her first words: "Thank you". Ben tells Goodman that he almost believed his lies and storms out after telling him he will get no such extension.

Ben also seeks out Emily Posa (Rosario Dawson), a woman whose heart is failing. He finds Emily at the hospital and follows her to her room. He observes her and another young patient named Nicholas, who also needs a bone marrow transplant. After Emily confronts Ben, he tells her he is from the IRS and that she hasn't paid her taxes because of her mounting medical bills. Soon afterward, Emily faints after a walk with her dog, and that night, a relationship buds between Emily and Ben.

Ben then visits his friend Holly in Social Services and asks for a favor; she replies she would do anything for him. With her help, he finds Connie, a mother of two, who is being abused by her boyfriend. He tells her he can drastically change her and her children's lives, but she refuses his help out of fear. Ben seeks out George, another friend of his, who is on dialysis because of a bad kidney. Ben has learned that George has been raising money to give college scholarships to high school students, and he decides to donate one of his kidneys to him.

Connie, sporting a new black eye, eventually calls Ben. Ben convinces her to take her family to his home (it was shown earlier that Ben decided to move out of his house and into a motel room so that he could give his house to a deserving person), where they will be safe from her boyfriend. She drives to her new home with her family where she and her children inspect the house, jumping on one of the beds in disbelief. In a letter to Connie along with the deed to the house, Ben says not to ask "why", but instead live her life abundantly, and he stipulates that by signing her name on the deed she agrees never to tell anyone about how she got the house or try to contact him again.

Earlier in the movie, Ben's brother calls him and asks how he is doing. After a bit of small talk his as yet unnamed brother asks Ben if he had taken something from his house the last time he stayed with them. Ben says "I remember I gave you something". That statement has enough force to abruptly end the conversation. Now much later, while Ben goes to his car to give a gift to Emily, a car pulls up and his brother gets out. After some arguing the brother calls him Tim, and says impersonating a IRS agent is a federal crime.

After more arguing "Ben" convinces his brother to calm down and the real Ben takes Tim's car keys and says he will be waiting in Tim's car. After spending the night with Emily, Tim sneaks out the back door and races to the hospital. Upon arriving he asks Emily's doctor about her chances of finding a donor. She responds by saying that, due to Emily's rare blood type, she only has about a 3–5% chance of finding a donor and living. He calls his best friend and tells him, "It's time, I love you", leaving his friend in tears.

That brings the narrative back to the earlier phone call to 911. Tim climbs into a tub full of cold water and dumps ice in it. After a bit of quick breathing he then takes a bucket on the edge of the tub and dumps it in. At first it appears like more ice but then it is shown to be a box jellyfish. He lies still and finally through a highly dramatic scene, it stings him into paralysis. The paramedics then rush him to the hospital, where he dies. Emily is then immediately notified through a beeper given to her earlier that she has a heart donor. Emily then rushes to the hospital, where the transplant is performed. We then see the flashbacks leading to this entire story. Tim is in a car with his fiancee, and he gets a text message on his phone. As he looks at his phone, his car veers head on into an oncoming van, which kills his fiancee, and the six people in the van.

At the end of the movie, it is revealed that Tim's brother, the real Ben Thomas, also needed a double lung transplant and that's what got Tim started in donating his organs. He also donated part of his liver to an ailing woman, Holly, who helped him find Connie. Emily decides to seek out Ezra. When she finds Ezra, he is playing the piano at a big event with a children's choir performing behind him. The event finishes and through a second highly dramatic scene we find Ezra now with Tim's eyes. Ezra realizes who Emily is and as tears roll down her face the movie ends with them hugging.