I Am Sam PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 14 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 18, 2002
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: New Line Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sean Penn & Michelle Pfeiffer | |
Performer: | Laura Dern, Loretta Devine, Doug Hutchison, Richard Schiff, Dianne Wiest, Scott Paulin, Wendy Phillips, Will Wallace & Dakota Fanning | |
Directed by | Jessie Nelson | |
Music by | John Lennon & Paul McCartney | |
Screenwriting by | Kristine Johnson & Jessie Nelson | |
Composition by | John Powell | |
Produced by | Marshall Herskovitz, Edward Zwick & Richard Solomon | |
Director of Photography: | Elliot Davis |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Sean Penn may be the most gifted actor of his generation.
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MovieFreak.com
Rating: 2.5/4 --
It's a sensational performance, and [Penn] illumines a movie that sometimes seems in danger of descending into modish Hollywood political correctness.
Chicago Tribune
Plays out in such a conventional manner that it feels like a TV movie of the week from the '70s.
Arizona Republic
...Emotionally effective....Fanning, in her first feature role, is charmingly earnest and positively luminous...
Box Office
Rating: 3/5 --
Moving film with great acting seems too contrived.
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Common Sense Media
Rating: 0/4 --
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.
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The Film Yap
On one level, I Am Sam is a crock, but on another, more vital one, it's very, very sweet.
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Slate
Product Description:
Actor Sean Penn displays another facet of his versatility as the title character of this inspirational tearjerker--a mentally handicapped father fighting for custody of his young daughter (Dakota Fanning). The child welfare board of his native Santa Monica has taken her from him, worried that at eight years old she has already begun to pass him in intellectual development. Sam's argument is that it's not brains but love that counts, and his case is taken by a stressed-out hot shot lawyer named Rita (Michelle Pfeiffer) who has her own problems dealing with her rebellious son. Anchored by his infectious love of the Beatles, the ceaselessly enthusiastic Sam becomes a positive influence on Rita as he raises a lot of questions about what's most important as a parent. Though it's Penn's show, Pfeiffer is so good she practically steals the film from him, and the startlingly precocious Fanning is not far behind. A warm soundtrack of Beatles covers and clever, fast-cut editing help the message of love and forgiveness shine through.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 44,539
- UPC: 794043553721
- Shipping Weight: 0.13/lbs (approx)
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