

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
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.