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21 Grams (2003)

Starring: Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu Rating: R (Restricted) Format: DVD
3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (271 customer reviews)
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  • Actors: Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts, Danny Huston, Carly Nahon
  • Directors: Alejandro González Iñárritu
  • Writers: Guillermo Arriaga
  • Producers: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Guillermo Arriaga, Robert Salerno, Ted Hope
  • Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: French (Unknown), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (DTS ES)
  • Subtitles: Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rating: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: Universal Studios
  • DVD Release Date: March 16, 2004
  • Run Time: 124 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (271 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0001CNRRU
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,098 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Sean Penn and Benecio Del Toro, two of the most gripping actors around, play wildly different men linked through a grieving woman (Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive, The Ring) in 21 Grams. Del Toro (Traffic, The Usual Suspects) delves deep into the role of an ex-con turned born-again Christian, a deeply conflicted man struggling to set right a terrible accident, even at the expense of his family. Penn (Mystic River, Dead Man Walking) captures a cynical, philandering professor in dire need of a heart transplant, which he gets from the death of Watts' husband. 21 Grams slips back in forth in time, creating an intricate emotional web out of the past and the present that slowly draws these three together; the result is remarkably fluid and compelling. The movie overreaches for metaphors towards the end, but that doesn't erase the power of the deeply felt performances. --Bret Fetzer

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The emotionally and physically charged lives of three people, a college professor (Sean Penn), an ex-con (Benicio Del Toro) and a young mother with a reckless past (Naomi Watts), collide unexpectedly in this gripping suspense thriller.

Fate brought them together. Now vengeance will take them to the heights of love, the depths of revenge and the promise of redemption. Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and Naomi Watts give the finest performances of their careers in the film that is "tantalizingly alive!" - Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Life, Death and Redemption., October 19, 2004
This review is from: 21 Grams (Full Dol Slip) [VHS] (VHS Tape)
This is a hard film to see and understand, nevertheless is outstanding and deserves to be seen.
Film director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu has developed a complex, tasty and compromised "film d'art". We may trace different stylistic influences on this movie: Quentin Tarantino's (Pulp Friction) non linear time sequence and some touches of Kieslowski's (The Double Life of Veronique) casual but most meaningful encounters between different characters.
Inarritu transforms an ordinary everyday issue in a strange, tangled and puzzling drama.

The story is as follows: there is a sick mathematician waiting for a heart transplant as last resort to survive; there is an ex-con trying to make a new clean life for him and his family; there is a family father taking care of his daughters. Tragedy and fate reunite all these elements into a griping tale.

Main actress and actors in the film perform greatly.
Sean Penn, as the feeble hearted mathematician, is able to express and transmit the anguish of nearly dying man. Afterwards he shows the compulsive need to find who his donor was.
Benicio Del Toro, as the ex-con, presents a very convincing mask of a tormented man trying to overcome his addictions and drawbacks in order to have a new opportunity.
Last but not least, Naomi Watts, as the widow of the donor, gives a performance full of subtleties.

Viewing this movie in DVD gives the unique opportunity to go back to previous scene when you get lost.
A tasty dish for movie fans. Enjoy!
Reviewed by Max Yofre.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Like a grisly roadside accident...we couldn't look away, December 31, 2005
By Just Bill (Grand Rapids, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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We watched 21 Grams last night.

To counteract the severely intense, tragic film we watched Leno's monolog about half-way through and, after the movie was over, Seinfeld Season Five's "The Marine Biologist." Even with humor during and after, we still went to bed feeling depressed.

This is not a film for the faint of heart (or even faint of mind). It requires one to suspend all hope and pay attention to the slow, choppy unfolding of the story.

As others have noted, this film unravels in a distinctly non-linear fashion -- story lines overlapping, backing up, coming at you from the past (or the future - hard to say which), all interspersed to tell the tale of three couples whose lives intersect in tragic, unexpected ways. (Remember Memento? This film owes a lot to that ground-breaking effort.)

Death, drugs, tragedy, sex, hopelessnes, spiritual and emotional devastation -- all these themes and images are pounded into the viewer from people whose lives have forever fallen apart.

Sean Penn is riveting, as usual. But so are Benicio Del Toro and Naomi Watts (who, I think, turned in the performance of her career).

All I could think about while I watched the movie was this: Life turns on a dime. At any given moment, my life could take a turn like the lives of these characters. Many lives take that turn every single day, and the downward spiral begins. That fear of sudden devastation chilled me to the bone the whole time I watched film. So, in effect, even though this isn't a traditional thriller or horror movie, it still scared the hell out of me.

I'm not sure this is the kind of movie I'll be able to watch again. But I'm definitely sure it's one I'll never be able to forget.
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29 of 37 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Three intertwined lives, December 6, 2003
From the Mexican writing-directing team behind the Oscar-nominated Amores Perros comes this explosive, emotionally charged English-language drama, which interweaves stories about Christine, a single mother and former drug addict (Naomi Watts); Paul (Sean Penn), a terminally ill professor, who was (and may still be) Christine's lover; and Jack (Benicio Del Toro), a reformed ex-convict.

21 GRAMS pertains to the cultural belief that when a human being dies, they weigh exactly 21 grams less which is attributed to the soul leaving the body. 21 GRAMS also pertains to the incessant questions of how individuals affect others, and what we take away with us at our death. It reveals the complex emotions of grief, loss, anger, betrayal, faith, and love of three strangers who are linked forever under unfortunate circumstances.

Shot in non-chronological order, the beginning of this film is a jumbled mess that makes little to no sense. But patience and attention is awarded when various pieces started to come together towards the end. 21 GRAMS is a wonderful, powerful film which aims to rescue the audience from other theatrical offerings. Highly recommended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Sean Penn's best.
This movie get's 4.5/5 from me, but I gave it 5 to benefit its overall rating.

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Published 13 months ago by Theresa M. Alig

2.0 out of 5 stars Hyped Garbage
I hated this movie. It was so slow and annoying, filled with over-the-top acting and a story that jumps all over the place. Read more
Published 14 months ago by J-Train

5.0 out of 5 stars Edited in a non-linear arrangement where the lives of the characters are depicted before and after a tragic automobile accident
21 Grams is a movie which has three parallel thread stories which seem to be unconnected but the movie progresses it becomes apparent that all three stories and characters are... Read more
Published 17 months ago by Vikram Ramanathan

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good Movie
For the first half hour of 21 grams, I just had no clue what was going on. Then the story actually starts to piece itself together, and it was a pretty rewarding experience... Read more
Published 18 months ago by Paul Polonskiy

3.0 out of 5 stars What started out interesting grew very tiresome: 21 GRAMS in 205 MINUTES!
The more I think about 21 GRAMS the more I start to dislike it...so I better write quickly before the stars start decreasing! Read more
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