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Film information

Name

21 Grams

Directed by

Alejandro González Iñárritu

Produced by

Alejandro González Iñárritu
Robert Salerno

Written by

Guillermo Arriaga

Starring

Sean Penn
Naomi Watts
Benicio del Toro

Music by

Gustavo Santaolalla

Cinematography

Rodrigo Prieto

Editing by

Stephen Mirrione

Studio

This is that

Distributed by

Focus Features

Release date

Running time

124 minutes

Country

Language

English

Budget

$20 million

Gross revenue

$60,427,839

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'21 Grams' is a 2003 American drama film directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga. It stars Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Danny Huston, and Benicio del Toro.

Like Arriaga's and González Iñárritu's previous film, Amores perros (2000), 21 Grams interweaves several plot lines, around the consequences of a tragic automobile accident. Penn plays a critically ill academic 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.

21 Grams is presented in a non-linear arrangement where the lives of the characters are depicted before and after 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.