History Film / SevenPounds

* LiteraryAllusionTitle: The film's title is taken from ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice''.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler: Tim]]'s abusive phone call to Ezra, who passes the test by not growing a spine. Which is another great lesson. There is a way to be 'good' and have a spine. Accepting abuse doesn't make you good (something that Film Brain interpreted when he reviewed this film), and people like Ezra who work in customer service are told to never lash out at customers, no matter what. Ezra was just doing his job the way he had been trained, and thus, he passes the test.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: [[spoiler:It's extremely doubtful that a box jellyfish could have survived for so long in an unheated jar full of water]].

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%%* DoomedProtagonist

* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler: Tim]]'s abusive phone call to Ezra, who passes the test by not growing a spine. Which is another great lesson. There is a way to be 'good' and have a spine. Accepting abuse doesn't make you good, and people like Ezra who work in customer service are told to never lash out at customers, no matter what. Ezra was just doing his job the way he had been trained, and thus, he passes the test.

* HowWeGotHere: The film opens with a scene towards the end, [[spoiler:where teh hero calls in to report his own death]]. Then we cut back to the beginning of the story to unravel the meaning of this scene.

* ThereAreNoTherapists

* OscarBait: The movie was clearly made with the purpose of winning Smith the Best Actor Oscar which he didn't get for ''ThePursuitOfHappyness''. It didn't even get ''nominated''.

* [[spoiler:BathSuicide.]]

* [[spoiler:DoomedProtagonist]]

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* SexyDiscretionShot: Probably one of the most beautiful, heartfelt love scenes since ''MeetJoeBlack''.

!!This movie shows examples of:

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Tim.]] * [[spoiler:BathSuicide.]]

* [[spoiler:BathSuicide]]

* SadisticChoice: [[spoiler: Tim]] had one hell of a choice to make: spend a month with the woman you love or [[spoiler: commit suicide to give her your heart so she can live out her life to the fullest.]] Life sucks, dunnit?

* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: [[spoiler: Tim]] never gets to say goodbye to Emily nor his own brother.
** Except for the fact that he wrote everyone letters they read after his death?

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Tim]] chooses option B in the SadisticChoice (see below).

--> "''In seven days, God created the world. And in seven seconds, I shattered mine.''"

The 2008 film starring Creator/WillSmith, Creator/RosarioDawson, [[Film/BattlefieldEarth Barry Pepper]], and [[Film/{{TheHungerGames}} Woody Harrelson]], to name a few stars.

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Death by [[spoiler: jellyfish]]? Not only painful but just flatout ''brutal'' to watch.

The film follows the enigmatic Tim Thomas, who spends his time donating whatever organs he can to seven unfortunate people to atone for something that is revealed over the course of the film. During this time, he meets Emily Posa, an IllGirl who has both [[SoapOperaDisease a rare heart condition]] and [[ABNegative a rare blood type]]. As he soon falls in love with Emily and helps her out, he is soon left with a painful decision that may or may not be easy to figure out, especially when his past comes back to haunt him and the illness worsens for Emily.

* ElderAbuse: Tim decides against donating one of his organs to a retirement home director after finding out the home mistreats their patients.

The 2008 film starring Creator/WillSmith, Creator/RosarioDawson, [[Film/BattlefieldEarth Barry Pepper]], and [[Film/{{Zombieland}} Woody Harrelson]], to name a few stars.

* VegetarianCarnivore: Emily claims her Great Dane is one of these. Which is also a case of ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare.
* XanatosRoulette: [[spoiler: In order to pull off what Tim did, one would have to put a lot of faith in God to pull off several miracles, one of them being to break the laws of physics and disable a certain neurotoxin so your organs would be in working order.]]

The 2008 film starring Creator/WillSmith, RosarioDawson, [[Film/BattlefieldEarth Barry Pepper]], and [[Film/{{Zombieland}} Woody Harrelson]], to name a few stars.

The film follows the enigmatic Tim Thomas, who spends his time donating what ever organs he could to seven unfortunate people to atone for something that is revealed over the course of the film. During this time, he meets Emily Posa, an IllGirl who has both [[SoapOperaDisease a rare heart condition]] and [[ABNegative a rare blood type]]. As he soon falls in love with Emily and helps her out, he is soon left with a painful decision that may or may not be easy to figure out, especially when his past comes back to haunt him and the illness worsens for Emily.

* SecretTestOfCharacter: [[spoiler: Tim]]'s abusive phone call to Ezra, who passes the test by not growing a spine. Which is another great lesson. There is a way to be 'good' and have a spine. Accepting abuse doesn't make you good, and people like Ezra who work in customer service are told to never lash out at customers, no matter what. Ezra was just doing his job the way he had been trained, and thus, passes the test.