Michelle Pfeiffer and Sean Penn give career-defining performances in this humorous and heart-warming film about a mentally-challenged father who enlists the aid of a high-powered attorney to help him regain custody of his daughter. An all-star supporting cast and a spectacular soundtrack complete this unforgettable story of life, love and laughter.
DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Filmmaker Commentary – With Director / Co-screenwriter Jessie Nelson
DVD ROM Features:Script-to-Screen Link to Original Website Hot Spot
Deleted Scenes:Deleted and Alternate Scenes with optional Director commentary
Documentary:Original Documentary: Becoming Sam
Other:Theatrical Press Kit DTS sound
Theatrical Trailer
I Am Sam makes you laugh, cry, and recoil all at the same time. Perhaps no other film of recent memory has epitomized the shameless sentimentality of Hollywood as succinctly as director and screenwriter Jessie Nelson’s story of a mentally challenged man fighting to retain custody of his 7-year-old daughter. Sam (Sean Penn), who has the mental age of 7, wipes down tables at a Los Angeles Starbucks and takes good care of his daughter Lucy, who was left with him shortly after birth by a homeless woman. Sam has gotten by just fine with a little help from his friends, including his eccentric neighbor (Diane Wiest) and a lovable group of similarly challenged friends, but a series of misunderstandings leaves Sam fighting to get Lucy back from the state. Sam’s lawyer, Rita Harrison (Michelle Pfeiffer), is an overly ambitious woman whose life is soon transformed by proximity to Sam’s brimming humanity. Sean Penn is, as usual, wholeheartedly committed to his role and turns in an admirable, if overtly affected performance. However, I Am Sam, with all its earnest charm, reaches an emblematic low when Sam, a character apparently devoid of any authentic sentiment, delivers a courtroom speech memorized from Kramer vs. Kramer as the film’s finale. –Fionn Meade
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March 5, 2010
#1
It’s really funny. Sam talks really funny. This is funnier than Saturday Night Live. Whoever played sam should start a career as a standup comedian. Man get it it made me laugh really hard.
March 5, 2010
#2
There`s one big mistake in this picture: The character Sam Dawson (Sean Penn) is just too stupid. Nobody would give this guy a child.
March 5, 2010
#3
This movie is so terrible I still have to laugh, thinking about it. Mawkish and sentimental are not insulting enough terms for this manipulative waste of perfectly good celluloid.
March 5, 2010
#4
I saw this movie yesterday. I decided to check out the reviews to see how badly people blasted it due to the fact that it sucked soooo bad. I am shocked that a lot of people seem to think this movie is good. Sean Penn generally cannot act, and he’s even worse at acting retarded. The only part I almost cried at was the closing credits, when I realized I would never get the previous 2 hours of my life back. Why is it that when actors play retarded people their performances are considered great? Any real retarded person could have outacted Penn in this terrible movie. As for the girl — was she playing a 35 year old woman trapped in an 8 year old’s body? Her intelligence and emotional capacity made the movie laughably unrealistic. I would give this movie zero stars if I could.
March 5, 2010
#5
It just has to be for the Academy Award that most actors pretend they don’t want but really would do anything and I mean ANYTHING to get. Well, anyway, we all know how talented Sean Penn is but like most of the actors of his generation they have lost their sense of humor and take EVERYTHING far too serious. I really think alot of them have their sights set on political careers. This movie should have worked but it dosen’t it was kind of creepy for some reason and even though all the acting was fine. And is Dakota Fanning the only child star in Hollyweird? Because she seems to be in every other movie produced this year. This movie is really for die hard Penn fans. Enjoy!