You know those movies that start and you feel like you've come in during the middle of the movie and you get this weird and creepy feeling, all at once? Like you're a little out-of-sync or off-groove? This is one of those movies - but that's part of how you're supposed to feel. Will Smith plays "Ben" - and Ben has done something he's very ashamed of. Something that has completely rocked his world.
Ben contemplates death daily and has even decided to kill himself. But, first, he decides to exact one amazing gift to seven individuals he searches for - he decides before he dies he has to redeem himself. So one by one, he chooses amazing people to give the gift of a longer or better life to. He donates a lung lobe to his brother, a kidney to a social worker, bone marrow to a random little boy...and so on.
In his search for the perfect recipient of his most precious last gifts, he hands over the keys to his beach house to a battered woman and her children. Then he finds the lovely Emily played by Rosario Dawson. He didn't think it was possible to love anyone again - but he falls hard for her. One night he watches her labored breathing - she needs a new heart - and he decides it's finally time. He lays in a tub of ice water and pulls his pet jellyfish into the tub with him...but not before calling an ambulance to make sure the organs are kept in perfect condition to be transplanted into his final recipients - Emily and his other choice, a blind musician named Ezra played by Woody Harrelson.
This review contained a ton of spoilers - please don't make that the reason you don't see this movie. Someone described it as a mixture of Pay it Forward and something coming from a very dark place. I would agree completely. But it still made me cry. And it will move you too.
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