Although the critics have not been kind to Seven Pounds, Will Smith joins Will Farrell (in Stranger Than Fiction) as the latest big-time actor to play an IRS agent:
Academy Award nominee Will Smith reunites with the directors and producers of The Pursuit of Happiness for the emotional drama Seven Pounds. In the film, Smith plays Ben Thomas, an IRS agent with a fateful secret who embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
From the New York Times review:
An IRS agent who wants only to help people. This is a nice, small joke that provides a few grace notes of levity in what is otherwise a lugubrious exercise in spiritual bushwa. For all its pious, earnest air, Seven Pounds cries out to be remade as an Asian horror movie, so that the deep, creepy grotesqueness of its governing premise might be allowed to flourish, rather than to fester beneath the surface.
Here is the trailer:
