I Am Sam (2001)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 132 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Jessie Nelson
Stars: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer and Dakota Fanning
IMDb score:
7,6 (157.162)
Releasedate: 28 December 2001
I Am Sam plot
"Love is all you need."
Sam Dawson is a mentally handicapped person with the mental age of a 7-year-old. He works at StarBucks and has an obsession with The Beatles. He has a daughter with a woman, who has run away from birth. So Sam is solely responsible for raising little Lucy Diamond, named after the Beatles hit. Everything goes smoothly at first, but as Lucy grows up, the problems begin. Social services begin to interfere and decide to place Lucy in a foster family. The start of a long process for Sam to have custody of his own daughter.
Actors and actresses
Sam Dawson
Rita Harrison Williams
Annie Cassell
Lucy Diamond Dawson
Mr. Turner
Margaret Calgrove
Patricia
Randy Carpenter
Brad
Joe
Reviews & comments
MH040
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- 320 messages
- 1013 votes
Penn does a Rainman.
The story is gripping and thought provoking, but I struggled with the execution. I didn't think it was realistic how different people interacted with Sam. Also (the character development of) the character that Michelle Pfeiffer plays was very cliché. Furthermore, I occasionally found the "wild" camera work a bit disturbing and not appropriate for a film like this, but more with an action film, for example.
A positive point is the game of the then still very young Dakota Fanning.
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Movsin
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- 8024 messages
- 8274 votes
Film shows a father's touching love for his daughter and that love is even contagious.
Nice, but this is about the only thing I want to remember from this film, because actually I can hardly imagine some of the situations outlined.
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Baboesjka
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- 891 messages
- 1625 votes
What a sweet, touching film with a very cute Dakota Fanning, Sean Penn is very good in his role and Michelle Pfeiffer also portrays her role as a busy, rather hysterical lawyer, although I sometimes think she is a bit too thick and exaggerated. I was afraid that I would find it a boring film, I regularly think that films in which lawsuits play a major role, but I certainly do not find this film boring. It looked smooth and nice and I think it's a strong story with interesting characters. Visually, I think it looks great too. Maybe it's crazy that I didn't know this one before. More than an 8. 4*
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