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Genres:
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Drama /
Music
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Director:
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Jessie Nelson
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Actors:
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Doug Hutchison,
Wendy Phillips,
Mason Lucero,
Brad Silverman,
Joseph Rosenberg,
Sean Penn,
Michelle Pfeiffer,
Dakota Fanning,
Dianne Wiest,
Loretta Devine,
Richard Schiff,
Laura Dern,
Stanley DeSantis,
Rosalind Chao,
Ken Jenkins
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Duration:
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132 min.
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Rating:
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(7.3/10)146
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Plot Summary:
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Sam Dawson has the mental right stuff of a 7-year-age-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a vagabonds mate; she abandons them as soon as they cause to be the sanitarium. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches maturity 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a poser at school; she's intentionally holding back to keep looking smarter than him. The authorities past her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his lawsuit pro bono. In the process, he teaches her ... a colossal handle at hand love, and whether it's really all you penury.Read more Less
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I Am Sam
I Am Sam is a warm, hard-to-resist story of a mentally challenged single father fighting to retain custody of his 7-year-old daughter. It's the kind of skilled heart-tugger that opens at this time of year, both to qualify for the Oscars--Sean Penn as the father and Michelle Pfeiffer as his attorney are particularly of note--and to attract holiday moviegoers.
There's more to this movie, however. It's an instance in which a sure-fire premise has been well developed by director Jessie Nelson and her co-writer Kristine Johnson. Hollywood gloss--gleaming cinematography, superior production design, etc.--has been put to good use by Nelson to illuminate not only the lives of Penn's Sam Dawson and Pfeiffer's Rita, but also many others.
I Am Sam is a most ...
I Am Sam
Sean Penn keeps it simple in a worthy but largely worthwhile tale about a man with a mental age of a seven-year-old who faces losing his daughter
Sean Penn has long been one of the best reasons for going to the movies. From Fast Times At Ridgemont High to Sweet And Lowdown, his list of great performances is lengthier than most actors' CVs. However, while his sophisticated work has garnered him awards at festivals such as Cannes, Berlin and Venice, it has been undervalued in his native America. It's perhaps for this reason that Penn plumped for the showy role of Sam Dawson.
Sam is a 40-year-old LA janitor and Beatles obsessive. He also has the same mental age as his seven-year-old daughter, Lucy (Fanning), who was the product of a liaison with a...
I Am Sam
"...Emotionally effective....Fanning, in her first feature duty, is charmingly assiduous and positively luminous..."
I Am Sam
Another contrived look at modern family matters from the headman of Corrina, Corrina, this at the drop of a hat overturn off alarm...
I Am Sam
"...Mr. Penn, with his usual teach, burrows obscure into Sam....You need no more than look into the actor's eyes to appreciate how unreservedly he is committed to perceiving the world the progressing Sam does..."
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