Matthew perez, anel reyes, stephanie gutierrez, and samantha mendiola. These are the sources and citations used to research i am sam. This bibliography was generated on cite this for me on thursday, october 29, 2015. Thats little lucy dawson, asking her father why he isnt quite like other. A heart affecting drama about a mentally challenged fathers parenting style and his custody battle for his sevenyearold daughter.
This is not a film about sam dawson, a retarded man with a mental age of 7 and autistic tendencies. The woman abandoned sam and their daughter, lucy soon after giving birth. I am sam pictures and movie photo gallery check out just released i am sam pics, images, clips, trailers, production photos and more from rotten tomatoes movie pictures archive. I am sam is the story of a developmentally disabled and autistic man, sam dawson, who fathers a child with a homeless woman. I am sam plot changed michelle pfeiffer pittsburgh postgazette. The compelling story of sam dawson penn, a mentally challenged father raising his daughter lucy with the help of. Once you see a person with mental retardation portrayed as accurately and positively as in the recently released movie i am sam, you can. I am sam is aimed at audiences who will relate to the hearttugging relationship between sam and lucy and young dakota fanning does a convincing job as the bright daughter. And he has raised his little girl named lucy diamond after the beatles song alone for seven years, ever since her mother ran away days after her birth. Not only does the manipulative i am sam oversimplify a complex issue, it drowns it in treacle. I am sam stylized i am sam is a 2001 american drama film written and directed by jessie nelson, and starring sean penn as a father with an intellectual disability, dakota fanning as his bright and inquisitive daughter, and michelle pfeiffer as his lawyer. The filming aspects help the audience to relate to sam and his view of the world.
Dianne wiest, loretta devine, richard schiff, and laura dern appear in supporting roles. But its sentimentality is so relentless and its narrative so predictable that the life is. But its sentimentality is so relentless and its narrative so predictable that. It is the story of a man named sam played by penn, suffering from mental retardation, who impregnanets a homeless woman. Once you see a person with mental retardation portrayed as accurately and positively as in the recently released movie i am sam, you can only. I am sam is not a bad movie, and its intentions are unimpeachable. I am sam is about a father trying to prove to the court system that he should have custody of his daughter, lucy. Daddy, did god mean for you to be like this, or was it an accident. Sam more or less understands this, but does the adoptive mother.