An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Acting
Will Smith's most devastating performance—restrained, hollow, haunted.
Direction
Muccino makes manipulation feel like art, for better or worse.
Editing
The fragmented timeline that slowly assembles your heartbreak.
Director
Gabriele Muccino
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
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title refers to Shakespeare's 'pound of flesh'—seven pounds of flesh Ben gives literally and figuratively.
Released during the 2008 financial crisis, Ben's IRS job made audiences weirdly complicit in his moral accounting.
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