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    I Am Sam

    Poster of the movie I Am Sam
    2002     Comedy    
    USA
    2h 12min
    PG-13
    Guide for parents: offensive language.
    G
    Guide for parents: Rated PG-13 in the USA, offensive language.
    PG
    Guide for parents: Rated PG-13 in the USA, offensive language.
    PG
    Guide for parents: Rated PG-13 in the USA, offensive language.
    PG
    Guide for parents: Rated PG-13 in the USA, offensive language.
    PG
    Guide for parents: Rated PG-13 in the USA, offensive language.
    PG
    Guide for parents: Rated PG-13 in the USA, offensive language.
    PG
    Guide for parents: Rated PG-13 in the USA, offensive language.

    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 to the attention 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 takes his case pro bona as a challenge from her colleagues. 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.

    Directed byJessie Nelson
    Written byJessie Nelson, Kristine Johnson
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    Starring

    Sean Penn
    Michelle Pfeiffer
    Dakota Fanning
    Dianne Wiest
    Loretta Devine
    Richard Schiff
    Laura Dern
    Mary Steenburgen
    Marin Hinkle
    Roma Maffia
    Brent Spiner
    Kathleen Robertson
    Molly Gordon
    Elle Fanning
    + MORE

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