Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7yo. He has a daughter who's homeless mother has abandons them both. Sam's difficulties become problematic, and she's taken away. Sam finds a lawyer who tells the case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love and whether it's really all needed.... (Full plot summary below)
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Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7yo. He has a daughter who's homeless mother has abandons them both. Sam's difficulties become problematic, and she's taken away. Sam finds a lawyer who tells the case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love and whether it's really all needed.
Leave your thoughts about I Am Sam.
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA heart affecting drama that is wonderfully buoyed up by contemporary versions of Beatle hits. |
| Talking Pictures (U.S.)Tony ToscanoA powerful film with powerful performances. |
| The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)Mark PalermoA supremely well-acted TV movie. But, like a lot of microwaveable insta-films, it has a capacity to taste shamefully better than it looks. |
| AboutFilm.comCarlo CavagnaThe problem with dismissing I AM SAM as a treacly Hollywood construct is that the acting is superb, tour-de-force stuff. |
| Reeling ReviewsRobin CliffordDakota Fanning [as little Lucy]is worth the price of admission. |
| MoviolaJorge Avila AndradeAgradable, sincera y divertida, es una muestra más de que a pesar de todo, como lo dice su frase publicitaria, todo lo que se necesita es amor. |
| Daily-ReviewsShay CaseyIt's all payoff and no setup; the longest Kodak commercial ever filmed. |
| South Florida Sun-SentinelTodd AnthonyI didn't see any green eggs, but there's ham aplenty in Penn's portrayal of Sam. |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin PutmanThoughtful and emotionally rewarding, I Am Sam works more successfully than it has any right to. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenA soap redeemed by an astonishing performance by Sean Penn as a mentally challenged adult seeking custody of his 7-year-old daughter. |
