21 Grams
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| Directed by | Alejandro González Iñárritu |
| Produced by | Alejandro González Iñárritu Robert Salerno |
| Written by | Guillermo Arriaga |
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Sean Penn Naomi Watts Benicio del Toro Charlotte Gainsbourg |
| Music by | Gustavo Santaolalla |
| Cinematography | Rodrigo Prieto |
| Edited by | Stephen Mirrione |
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| Distributed by | Focus Features |
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124 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $20 million |
| Box office | $60.4 million |
21 Grams is a 2003 American drama film directed by Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu from a screenplay written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Danny Huston and Benicio Del Toro.
The second part of Arriaga's and González Iñárritu's Trilogy of Death, preceded by Amores perros (2000) and followed by Babel (2006), 21 Grams interweaves several plot lines in a nonlinear arrangement.
21 Grams revolves around the consequences of a tragic automobile accident. Penn plays a critically ill mathematician, Watts plays a grief-stricken mother, and Del Toro plays a born-again Christian ex-convict whose faith is sorely tested in the aftermath of the accident. The three main characters each have "past," "present," and "future" story threads, which are shown as non-linear fragments that punctuate elements of the overall story, all imminently coming toward each other and coalescing as the story progresses.
The title refers to the early 20th-century research of physician Dr. Duncan MacDougall who attempted to show scientific proof of the existence of the immortal human soul by recording a loss of body weight (representing the departure of the soul) immediately following death. The research by MacDougall attempted to follow the scientific method and showed some variance in results ("three-fourths of an ounce", which has since been popularized as "21 grams" is the reported weight loss from the death of the first subject). MacDougall's results were published in the peer reviewed journal "American Medicine".
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