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Release Date
• USA: Dec 28, 2001
• UK: 10 May 2002
DVD Release Date
• R1: Jun 18, 2002
• R2: 28 Oct 2002
Budget $22,000,000
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MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for language.
Running Time
2 hours, 12 minutes
Country USA
Studio Bedford Falls Productions, Blue Fish Films, Red Fish
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Other Titles
• I Am Sam
• Ich bin Sam (2002)
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Genre: Drama, Law, Society, Courtroom, Mental Illness, Melodrama, Tear Jerker
Tagline: love is all you need
Plot: Sam Dawson (Sean Penn) is 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 surpass 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 similar. 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 the power of unconditional love.
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Jessie Nelson
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