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A mentally handicapped man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.
28 August 1940, Dayton, Ohio, USA
2 September 1954, Tuba City, Arizona, USA
10 February 1967, Saint John's Health Center, Santa Monica, Los Angeles County, California, USA
23 February 1994, Conyers, Georgia, USA
28 March 1948, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
13 February 1950, Steubenville, Ohio, USA
12 March 1970, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
8 July 1973, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
23 March 1966, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
5 May 1969, Evanston, Illinois, USA
31 May 1958, Manhattan, New York, USA
13 August 1949, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 August 1960, Santa Monica, California, USA
9 April 1998, Conyers, Georgia, USA
December 24, 2010
Moving film with great acting seems too contrived.March 22, 2002
On one level, I Am Sam is a crock, but on another, more vital one, it's very, very sweet.March 04, 2002
Plays out in such a conventional manner that it feels like a TV movie of the week from the '70s.November 06, 2002
Penn repeatedly hits the ball out of the park, but the rest of the team never gets past first base.January 25, 2002
For a movie that probes the sensitive issue of living with reduced mental capacity, are the creators of Bambi the obvious choice?June 19, 2003
Sean Penn may be the most gifted actor of his generation.February 08, 2003
Just watching Penn and Fanning interact...is worth wading through the occasionally ankle-deep syrup.September 23, 2004
And I think I am sick.September 25, 2010
Sean Penn gives the most professionally shameful, cruelly wrongheaded performance ever nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, while Jessie Nelson Kristine Johnson's script lives down to Penn's ugly ineptitude with idiotic catchphrases and product placement.January 23, 2003
This movie plays like an after-school special or a public service announcement.July 20, 2002
It's a sensational performance, and [Penn] illumines a movie that sometimes seems in danger of descending into modish Hollywood political correctness.January 25, 2002
A well-intentioned but ludicrous tale.