I Am Sam

[2001, Movie]

I Am Sam: Review

Family man: Sean Penn with Dakota Fanning

A maximum tearjerker that adroitly uses the undisguised emotions of the mentally challenged to tell a clear, stripped-down story about the love between a father and his child. That this film's emotionally manipulative premise and an often-contrived screenplay manage to succeed as powerful drama is due mostly to a pair of unflinchingly honest performances by Sean Penn, as a single father with the IQ of a seven-year-old, and Michelle Pfeiffer, as the brutally self-centered L.A.... read more

I Am Sam: Cast & Details

Year: 2001
Rated PG-13

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Cast
Sean Penn: Sam Dawson
Michelle Pfeiffer: Rita Harrison
Dakota Fanning: Lucy Diamond Dawson
Dianne Wiest: Annie
Doug Hutchinson: Ifty
Stanley DeSantis: Robert

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