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I am Sam

Last night I happened to watch a very interesting movie, featuring Sean Penn as a mentally disabled father of a bueatiful child.
Sam Dawson (Sean Penn) is working at a coffee shop raising his money for his daughter Lucy (Dakota Fanning) for seven years. Sam gets help to raise her child from a circle of friends, all autistic or wit down sindrome and very caring. Although he provides a structured and loving environment for Lucy that includes regular visits to IHOP, video nights, and karaoke, Sam’s daughter is beginning to surpass him in mental acuity.

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 Brad Silverman and Joseph Rosenberg). Although he provides a structured and loving environment for Lucy that includes regular visits to IHOP, video nights, and karaoke, Sam’s daughter is beginning to surpass him in mental acuity. When Lucy begins intentionally stunting her own growth so as not to hurt her beloved father, social worker Margaret (Loretta Devine) takes action, removing the girl from her home and placing her in the temporary care of a foster mother, Randy (Laura Dern).
s the day of his hearing looms, Sam seeks out the aid of driven, obsessive lawyer Rita Harrison (Michelle Pfeiffer), who takes the case only to prove to her colleagues that she is willing to accept pro bono work.
The movie is absolutely beautiful! The plot is original and very controversial, and, for the 1st time must admit, I loved Seam Penn in this movie. He is great! From the very first minute he lets you fall in his world.
A very good movie you can watch here, thanks to movielab.com.

The soundtrack for I Am Sam (2001) gained considerable critical attention, consisting entirely of Beatles cover songs by such contemporary artists as The Black Crowes, Eddie Vedder, the Wallflowers, and Aimee Mann, among others. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide.

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