21 Grams
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Paul Calderon
Naomi Watts
Denis O'hare
Sean Penn
Troy Borisy
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
College professor Paul Rivers and his wife Mary find their union precariously balanced between life and death. He is mortally ill and awaiting a heart transplant, while she hopes to become pregnant with his child through artificial insemination. Cristina Peck, having matured since her reckless past, is a beloved older sister to Claudia, a good wife to Michael and loving mother to two little girls. Her family radiates hope and joy. Much farther down the socioeconomic scale, ex-con Jack Jordan and his wife Marianne struggle to provide for their two children while Jack reaffirms his commitment to religion. A tragic accident that claims several lives places these couples in each other's orbit. In the aftermath, Paul confronts his own mortality, Cristina takes action to come to terms with her present and perhaps her future, and Jack's faith is put to the test. If spiritual equilibrium is to be regained by any one of them, it could come at great cost to the others. Yet the will to live, and the instinct to reach out to another person for support, remains ever present among them all.
Director
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Cast
Paul Calderon
Naomi Watts
Denis O'hare
Sean Penn
Troy Borisy
Eddie Marsan
Catherine Dent
Carly Nahon
Barclay Roberts
Tony Guyton
Hai Quang Tran
Annie Corley
Charlotte Gainsbourg
Kevin Chapman
Pamela Blair
Jorge Trivissonno
Teresa Delgado
Lisa Sanchez
Charlie B Brown
Clea Duvall
Danny Huston
Melissa Leo
Juan Corrigan
Nick Nicholas
Terry Draper
Antef A Harris
Marc Thomas Musso
Wayne E Beech
Sharon Bishop
Arita Trahan
Tricia Branch
David Chattam
Benicio Del Toro
Claire Pakis
John Boyd West
Rodney Ingle
Roberto Medina
Tony Vaughn
Michael W Finnell
Lew Temple
Randall Hartzog
Jeff Schmidt
Jennifer Pfalzgraff
Stephen W Bridgewater
Keith Lamont Johnson
Tom Irwin
Anastasia Herin
Loyd Keith Salter
Arron Shiver
Dorothy Armstrong Miles
Javier Casalla
Carlo Alban
Jerry Chipman
Verda Davenport
Crew
Luisa Abel
Willy Abers
Douglas Neal Acton
Robyn Adams
Jeanette Agaronoff
Sylvester Allen
Gustav Alsina
Brenda Anderson
Dana Anderson
Steve Anderson
Robert Anzures
Guillermo Arriaga
Guillermo Arriaga
Guillermo Arriaga
Ulli Auer-erdoes
Vivian Baker
Vivian Baker
Steve Bartkowicz
Sheila Bartlett
Robert Baumgartner
Kenny Becker
Ron Bedrosian
Ulises Bella
Stephanie Beman
Janey Bergam
Christine Bergren
David L Bethel
Thomas Betts
Amanda Blackburn
Alex Blagg
Kurt Blondis
Theo Bott
Deborah Bowden
Steve Bowen
Stephen Bradley
Barbara Lee Brice
Brigitte Broch
Andy Brokmeyer
Greg Bronner
Harold Brown
Eva Z. Cabrera
Steve N Cainas
Jennifer Campbell
Al Cantu
Julio Carmona
Nick Case
Pablo Castorena
Walker L Chaney Jr.
Cut Chemist
James E Christian
Drew Clarke
Kenneth R Cole
Matt Colleran
Nancy Collini
Gil Combs
Victor Cook
Emanuele Corso
Julia Cranston
Douglas Crise
Michael Cruickshank
Arthur B Crutcher
Michele Cusick
Katheryn Czark
Holly Davis
W Russell Davis
Chandra Dealessandro
Ymelda Devargas
Joseph Dianda
Sergio Diaz
Morris Dickerson
Tim Dingle
Steve Driggers
Kathleen Driscoll-mohler
Payton Dunham
Mark Alan Duran
Chris Durand
David Duren
Wayne Elliott
Sebastian Escofet
Jose Ines Espinosa
Jesse Esquibel
Benny Estrada
Roger W Evans
Meg Everist
Scott Eversoll
Lynn Fainchtein
John Farmer
Robert K. Feldmann
Andrew Fiero
George M Finney
Ed Fitzgerald
David Florio
John Anthony Ford
Patrick French
Jonathan Fuh
Anson Funderburgh
Anson Funderburgh
Renee Funderburgh
Chris Gallegos
Jose Antonio Garcia
Jerry Gardner
Robert Getty
Nerses Gezalyan
Tom Gilbert
Andy Gill
William J Girard
Corinne Golden Weber
Harry Goldstein
Alfonso Gomez-rejon
Josh Goode
Damon Gordon
David Graves
Xavier Pérez Grobet
Xavier Pérez Grobet
Xavier Pérez Grobet
Allison Gross
Lisa Guerriero
Mona Hamilton
Ira M Hammons-glass
Mark C Hansen
Gary A Hardy
Barbara Harris
Jim Hensz
Martin Hernandez
Martin Hernandez
Tony Hernandez
Hawk Herrera
Michael Hertlein
Clark R Holmes
Walter Holmes
Ted Hope
Robert A House
Phillip Howard
Ben Hynum
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Elizabeth Ingram
Jerry Jackson
Michael Jacobson
Judith H Jenner
Marty Jensen
Leroy Jordan
Glenn D Kaplan
Mark Karavite
Brian Kay
Elizabeth Keenan
Michael Kelly
Ted Kennedy
Anibal Kerpel
Anibal Kerpel
Ivan Kerum
Ivan Kerum
Neda Kerum
Neda Kerum
Tony Kerum
Thomas Kittle
Bradley A Knopf
Robert Kyle
Cindy Lajeunesse
George Lebow
Teresa Lester
Annaliese Levy
Jay Levy
Paul Lightell
Duke Lim
Andria Lisle
Johnny Long
Bill Lopez
Benjamin C Lowney
David Lukasik
John Lybrand
Vicki R Lybrand
Joseph Magid
Francine Maisler
Josh Malloy
William Marrufo
Wende Martin
Sato Masuzawa
Dave Matthews
Dave Matthews
Dave Matthews
Eduardo Mayen
Kimberly D Mccray
Lawrence B Mciver
Lee Mclemore
Samuel Mendoza
Chris Milani
Charles W Miller
Dan Miller
Kiersten Pilar Miller
Stephen Mirrione
Steve Moffitt
Eugenio Montejo
Daniela Moore
Lucas Moore
Tom Moore
Megan Moran
James Moriana
Merrick Morton
Michael Mullane
Film Details
Technical Specs
Award Nominations
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Winner of the 2003 award for Best Actor (Sean Penn) by the National Board of Review.
Winner of the 2003 award for Best Actress (Naomi Watts) from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
Winner of the 2003 award for Best Actress (Naomi Watts) from the Online Film Critics Society.
Winner of the 2003 Satellite Award for Best Actor (Sean Penn).
Winner of the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor (Sean Penn) at the 2003 Venice International Film Festival.
Released in United States Fall November 21, 2003
Released in United States on Video March 16, 2004
Released in United States 2003
Released in United States October 2003
Shown at London Film Festival October 22-November 6, 2003.
Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 27-September 7, 2003.
Shown at Venice International Film Festival (in competition) August 27 - September 6, 2003.
Shown at New York Film Festival October 3-19, 2003.
Focus Features sold United Kingdom rights to Icon Film Distribution.
Project marks Mexican director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's American directoral debut.
This Is That is Ted Hope's production company.
The title track from Dave Matthew's first solo album, "Some Devil," will be used for the film's closing credits.
The title "21 Grams" directly refers to the notion that the body loses 21 grams of weight when we die--the weight carried by others who survive.
Released in United States Fall November 21, 2003 (NY, LA)
Released in United States on Video March 16, 2004
Released in United States 2003 (Shown at London Film Festival October 22-November 6, 2003.)
Released in United States 2003 (Shown at Montreal World Film Festival August 27-September 7, 2003.)
Released in United States 2003 (Shown at Venice International Film Festival (in competition) August 27 - September 6, 2003.)
Released in United States October 2003 (Shown at New York Film Festival October 3-19, 2003.)
Nominated for two 2004 Screen Actor's Guild (SAG) awards, including Best Actress (Naomi Watts) and Best Supporting Actor (Benicio Del Toro).
