Seven Pounds

Academy Award nominee Will Smith reunites with the director and producers of The Pursuit of Happyness for this emotional drama concerning an IRS agent whose quest for redemption is unexpectedly complicated after he inadvertently falls in love. Ben Thomas is an IRS agent with a fateful secret. ...more

There’s a fine line between veiling plot points for the sake of mystery and obfuscating them to the point of annoyance. The problem with Seven Pounds (well, one of several) is that its intended twist is pretty easy to figure out, and it’s a paltry one at that. Director Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit of Happyness) was striving for something heartrending with this meditation on mortality, but what he got was a schmaltzy do-gooder tale, with a disgruntled Will Smith playing the mysteriously tortured ...more