21 Grams (2003)

Release date: 2004-01-16
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Alejandro G. Iñárritu (as Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Production Co: This Is That Productions, Y Productions, Mediana Productions Filmgesellschaft
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Rating: 7.7/10
Length: 2h 4min

Storyline

This is the story of three well-meaning but flawed people: Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married homemaker with two young daughters, with hiding a secret past; and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to live a law-abiding life and raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will have learnt harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.

Plot Keywords

panties, marital separation, nonlinear timeline, female frontal nudity, female nudity, extramarital affair, unfaithfulness, infidelity, breast suckling, voyeur, sex in bed, red panties, fondling, cleavage, breasts, redemption, vengeance, prayer, pain, bible

Short Review

21 Grams soars into the chilly empyrean of first-class film-making by virtue of the most traditional of values: sympathetic characters and clever plotting.