21 GRAMS "Spotlight on Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu" Series October 28, 2006

free, tix available at box office from noon
2003 color 124min
Scr Guillermo Arriaga
dir: Alejandro González Iñárritu
Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Danny Huston, Benicio Del Toro

Relentlessly gritty in its content & employing a jumbled chronology that jumps from one shocking event to the next, this intense drama follows 3 families as their lives are fatefully intertwined through a series of tragic events. The title, 21 GRAMS, refers to the amount of weight that a human body loses at the moment of death, but the story begs the question: how much is gained? The 3 parties come together in impulsive, violent, & destructive ways.

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