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I Am Sam

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I Am Sam
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PG13,2hrs 12min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
December 28, 2001
Director:
Jessie Nelson
Distributor:
New Line Cinema
Starring:
Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning  ...more
Synopsis: Sean Penn stars in this drama as Sam Dawson, a developmentally disabled adult who has been working at a coffee shop and raising his daughter Lucy (Dakota Fanning) for seven years. Sam receives help in his parenting duties from a circle of trusted confidantes, including his ADD-afflicted best friend Ifty (Doug Hutchison), the paranoid Robert (Stanley DeSantis), an agoraphobic neighbor (Dianne Wiest), and his other disabled pals, Brad and Joe (played by real-life developmentally challenged actors Full Synopsis
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Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
A warm, hard-to-resist story. Full Review
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28
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out of 100
Based on 33 critic reviews
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Sean Penn
Sam Dawson
Michelle Pfeiffer
Rita Harrison
Dakota Fanning
Lucy
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