[Missouri-l] Accessible World presents Friday night at the movies, November 6

[Nancy Lynn]

Accessible World presents "Friday night at the Movies," starring Will Smith, 
November 6, 2009

News Wire:

Friday night at the movies

"Seven Pounds", Described. Audio only, mp3 format.

Two years ago Tim Thomas (Will Smith) was in a car crash, which was caused 
by him using his mobile phone; seven people died: six strangers and his 
fiancée, Sarah Jenson (Robinne Lee).

Movie opens with Tim (now using his brother's name -Ben) making a 911 call 
to report a suicide - his. Then we see Ben at the IRS building researching. 
Next his brother calls him, Ben asks if he's smoking again - he says no. His 
brother asks if he took anything while he was staying there, Ben says no but 
he remembers giving him something.

A year after the crash, and having quit his job as an aeronautical engineer, 
Tim donates a lung lobe to his brother, Ben (Michael Ealy), an IRS employee. 
Six months later he donates part of his liver to a child services worker 
named Holly (Judyann Elder). After that he begins searching for more 
candidates to receive donations. He finds George (Bill Smitrovich), a junior 
hockey coach, and donates a kidney to him, and then donates bone marrow to a 
young boy named Nicholas (Quintin Kelley).

Tim steals his brother's IRS credentials, so he can check out candidates for 
his two final donations. The first candidate is Ezra Turner (Woody 
Harrelson), a blind meat salesman who plays the piano. Tim calls Ezra Turner 
and harasses him at work to check if he is quick to anger. Ezra remains calm 
and Tim decides he is worthy. The second candidate is Charles, who runs a 
nursing home. Tim decides Charles is not a worthy candidate when he denies 
an elderly patient a bath.

There is a flashback of Ben checking on a hockey coach, and we later see 
them the day of the surgery.

He then contacts Emily Posa (Rosario Dawson), a self-employed greeting card 
printer who has a heart condition and a rare blood type. He visits her in 
the hospital, learns she has been put on the donor list. He spends time with 
her, weeding her garden and fixing her rare Heidelberg printer. They go on a 
walk, have dinner together. He begins to fall in love with her and decides 
that as her condition has worsened he needs to make his donation.

Two weeks before he dies he contacts Holly and asks if she knows anyone who 
deserves help. She suggests Connie Tepos (Elpidia Carrillo), who lives with 
an abusive boyfriend. Tim moves out of his house and into a local motel 
taking with him his pet box jellyfish. One night, after being beaten, Connie 
contacts Tim and he gives her the keys and deed to his beach house. She 
takes her two children and moves in to their new home.

His brother tracks him down to Emily's house. Ben then demands that Tim 
return his IRS ID to him. Tim leaves and returns to the motel. He fills the 
bathtub with ice water to preserve his vital organs, climbs in, and then 
commits suicide by pulling his extremely poisonous jellyfish into the water 
with him. His friend Dan (Barry Pepper) acts as executor to ensure that his 
organs are donated to Emily and Ezra. Ezra Turner receives his corneas and 
Emily receives his heart. Afterwards, Emily meets Ezra at a concert and they 
begin to talk.

We see the 911 call again, flashback to the accident where his girlfriend is 
looking at her engagement ring, and he is looking at his blackberry.

Year: 1998, Rating: R.

Nancy Lynn, Group Facilitator

Email: Freespirit52 at charter.net

Date: Friday, November 6th, 2009

 

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