US drama directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu. The film captures the immediacy and confusion of the moments before, during and after a horrific accident that causes the lives of three disparate people to become intertwined. Sean Penn plays Paul Rivers, a mathematics teacher facing up to his pending death from a heart problem, while his distant wife Mary (Charlotte Gainsbourg) hopes to become pregnant from artificial insemination. Naomi Watts is Cristina, the mother of two little girls who has overcome a drug-dependent past to achieve a stable, happy marriage, while Benicio Del Toro plays Jack Jordan, an ex-criminal struggling to provide for his wife and their two children in a poor area of town. When tragedy strikes, all three must re-evaluate their lives in the face of death.
