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Name: I Am Sam
Released: 2001-12-28
Cast: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianne Wiest, Dakota Fanning, Richard Schiff

I Am Sam

PG-13
2h 12m
2001

36%

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Can a mentally challenged man be a good father? Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer star in the moving story of unconditional love that grows between a man, his daughter and the attorney who accepts his case pro bono. When the mental capacity of Sam's (Penn) seven-year-old daughter exceeds his, the local department of social services removes her from his guardianship. But in his relentless battle to regain his daughter, Sam teaches his attorney (Pfeiffer) about love and guides her in her difficult relationship with her own son.

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

36%

Critics Consensus: Not only does the manipulative I Am Sam oversimplify a complex issue, it drowns it in treacle.

Reviews

Epoch Times

Michael Clark

Penn never goes over the top with his speech, ticks, hand gestures, and all-around physicality. He doesn’t act like a mentally challenged man, he behaves like one: there’s a big difference between the two.

August 10, 2022

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TheIndependentCritic.com

Richard Propes

Penn's performance deserved the Oscar nomination.

Moving film with great acting seems too contrived.

Sean Penn gives the most professionally shameful, cruelly wrongheaded performance ever nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, while Jessie Nelson Kristine Johnson's script lives down to Penn's ugly ineptitude with idiotic catchphrases and product placement.

November 8, 2023

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Sacramento News & Review

Mark Halverson

August 16, 2017

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