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» Movie Details
Release Date: January 25th, 2002
Director: Jessie Nelson
Writer: Jessie Nelson, Kristine Johnson
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Schiff, Dianne Wiest, Doug Hutchison, Kathleen Robinson
Tag Line: Love is all you need
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 132 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language
Studio: New Line Cinema
Box Office: $40,311,851 (US total)
DVD Release: June 18, 2002
Official Website: I am Sam
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» Synopsis
I am Sam is the compelling sotry of Sam Dawson (Sean Penn), a mentally-challenged father raising his daughter Lucy (Dakota Fanning) with the help of an extraordinary group of friends. As Lucy turns seven and begins to intellectually supass her father, their close bond is threatened when their situation comes under the scrutiny of a social worker who wants Lucy placed in foster care.

Faced with a seemingly unwinnable case, Sam vows to fight the legal system and forms an unlikely alliance with Rita Harrison (Michelle Pfeiffer), a high-powered, self-absorbed attorney who initially takes his case pro bona as a challenge from her colleagues. On the surface the two couldn't be further apart, but in reality they are subtly similiar. Sam's compulsive nature mirrors Rita's more socially acceptable obsessive-compulsive nature. Her manic need for perfection and success alienates her from her own son and has been slowly destroying her self-worth.

Together they struggle to convince the system that Sam deserves to get his daughter back and, in the process, fuse a bond that results in a unique testament to te power of unconditional love.

The film features a soundtrack of contemporary covers of classic Beatles songs, recorded by such acclaimed artists as Sheryl Corw, Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper, Bend Folds, The Wallflowers, Sarah McLachlan and Aimee Mann & Michael Penn.

I am Sam is a powerful, emotional film about love, parenthood and the bonds of family.

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