The movie you're thinking of is "21 Grams."
Internet Movie Database: 21 Grams
http://imdb.com/title/tt0315733/
"21 Grams...
The title refers to the amount of weight that is supposedly lost from
the body shortly after it dies (is this the weight of the soul?). It
is a concept simultaneously physical and spiritual, perfectly
prompting the film?s empowering and underlining issues of life, death,
revenge and redemption."
In Film Australia: 21 Grams movie review
http://www.infilm.com.au/reviews/21grams.htm
"21 Grams...
The title of the movie comes from the work of Dr Duncan MacDougall,
who in the early 1900s sought to measure the weight purportedly lost
by a human body when the soul departed the body upon death. MacDougall
weighed dying patients in an attempt to prove that the soul was
material and measurable. These experiments are widely considered to
have had little if any scientific merit, and although MacDougall's
results varied considerably from 21 grams, for some people this figure
has become synonymous with the measure of a soul's weight."
Answers.com: 21 Grams
http://www.answers.com/topic/21-grams
Here you'll find more information about the belief that the human soul
weighs 21 grams:
Snopes Urban Legends Reference Pages
http://www.snopes.com/religion/soulweight.asp
My Google search strategy:
Google Web Search: movie OR film soul weighs OR weight "21 grams"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=movie+OR+film+soul+weighs+OR+weight+%2221+grams%22
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