Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about l... ove, and whether it's really all you need.Read moreLess
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 live...
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 sam...
I Am Sam
"...Mr. Penn, with his usual discipline, burrows deep into Sam....You need only look into the actor's eyes to see how deeply he is committed to perceiving the world the way Sam does..."
I Am Sam
The emotionally manipulative story of a single parent (Sean Penn) with a mental age of seven, I Am Sam falls uncomfortably between Forrest Gump and Kramer vs Kramer (what a pitch that must have made), centring as it does on a custody battle for his daughter, whose seventh birthday conveniently makes Sam an untenable parent. Quite apart from being an offensive, inaccurate and unhelpful portrait of mental illness (Sam's Rain Man-influenced autism comes and goes to suit the mawkish script), I Am Sam is a blatant vanity project for Penn and a naive piece of schmaltz. Michelle Pfeiffer's cartoonish "high-powered lawyer" of course learns important lessons from Sam's innocent w...
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"..[Fanning is] cute without being cutesy, smart without being smart-arsed, she's the bright eyed emotional heart of the film..."
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Great acting by all three. Penn does a great job, but I think Pfeiffer's role should have been made a little more professional and helpful in getting custody back. I have to ask myself, would I hire someone as an atty that is as loopy as she is in this movie? Yet she states she never loses? She did nothing in getting custody, it was Penn's love for his daughter in showing no one could love her like he did.
This is a great Movie..Sean Penn is 100% percent brilliant..Dakota fanning was adorable..N Michelle Pfeiffer was amazing..this movie makes me cry every time i see..Worth watching!!
this is an incredible movie, and Sean Penn delivers an amazing, heartfelt performance that is just a tearjerker to the max. i cry every time i watch it!
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i really didn't like the foster parents, they didn't get that she was just a kid that wanted to be with her dad! i loved it when she asked Lucy if she wanted a snack, and Lucy just takes it to eat it in her room instead. although the foster mom did realise her dad was willing to her everything he could. that was nice.
