I Am Sam

Pros: Amazing performances, endearing characters, terrific storyline!
Cons: None for me!

I think that perhaps this is Sean Penn's best performance in a film role ever! Sean Penn is SAM ... from the moment we see him on screen his performance is captivating; riveting; endearing; heart wrenching.

Penn portrays, Sam Dawson, an...

Pros: Great perfomances, story is touching while not being too sappy
Cons: a little one sided

In I Am Sam, Sean Penn (Mystic River) plays Sam Dawson a mentally handicapped man who takes in a homeless woman and gets her pregnant. The woman, as soon as she gives birth, flees leaving Sam to care for their daughter alone. Sam, a Beatles fanatic, ...

Pros: Retarded man raises child. State tries to take child away. Good plot
Cons: Seems like movie left out a lot.

Who do you side with? Sam, played by Sean Penn, is a retarded man with a mental age of a seven year old raising a daughter. The state tries to take the child away. Both sides have good arguments. Seems like the movie left a lot out.
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Pros: Good morals, plot, story-line, great characters, and soundtrack.
Cons: Have to work really hard not to cry.

Sam is mentally retarded, and has the intelligence of a seven year old. He works at Starbucks, wiping up spills and making things look neat.

He made love to a homeless woman, and she got pregnant and left him with the baby, whom he named...

Pros: Very touching, outstanding acting and excellent soundtrack
Cons: I felt it was a little "chopped up" in editing

"I am Sam" for me really showed that Sean Penn can act. I think he did an amazing job of playing a mentally challenged man facing the task of trying to raise a daughter that is quickly becoming more advanced than he is. I was very touched by the movie...

Pros: Dakota Fanning, Doug Hutchinson & Michelle Pfeiffer's breakdown
Cons: They tried a little too hard to make you cry.

Well, well, well. My review title could also easily have been: Dr. Seuss meets the Beatles in Fractured Fairy Tales' Happily Ever After Land. I promise, I'll be nice now.

My daughter (15) saw this movie before I did and when she got home,...

Pros: Sean Penn's performance, despite writers throwing in a few stretches and a few cutesy moments
Cons: A few contrived scenes; a bit predictable; ends slightly ambiguously

Along with Edward Norton, Kevin Spacey and Denzel Washington, Sean Penn is at the top of the class when it comes to present day actors. "I Am Sam" allows Penn to shine in his role as a mentally challenged young man with autistic tendencies and a...

Pros: This movie shows that love is stronger than anything and can beat all odds.
Cons: The ending was a little weak, and I felt that it was missing something.

Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer are incredible in this movie. They make this movie strong, and they play really believable parts.

Sean Penn plays the part of Sam who is not quite "normal", and has a daughter with a homeless woman. The...

Pros: Fine acting of Pfeiffer & Penn, good script, good direction
Cons: I seem to have attended to the pros more.

As I mentioned in my review of "A Beautiful Mind" I felt that the performance of Sean Penn in "I am Sam" should have received the "best actor" Screen Actors Guild award last night. Here's the reason Penn should win the Oscar.

The film is a...

Pros: Penn's performance, the innocence of the movie, and the message the movie conveyed.
Cons: Not a whole lot.

Going into the movie "I Am Sam" I was expecting a movie about the struggle of a mentally disabled man trying to keep his daughter from being taken from him. I had no idea that this movie was going to touch upon some many other areas of importance....

Pros: A Tear Jerker to beat all... If you like tearjerkers.
Cons: Too long, my friend and I cried thru the entire film.

At the very start of this movie, I mistakenly thought that Sean Penn was imitating Dustin Hoffman. Hoffman gave an oscar winning performance, in his portrayal of an autistic man in the film "Rainman". Then I came to realize that Sean Penn's character...

Pros: cast
Cons: unspontaneous

Without a doubt, Sean Penn comes through with an excellent acting performance as the father. Michelle Pfeiffer's performance as the top notch lawyer is pretty credible as well. While Pfeiffer and Penn deliver strong performances, Dakota Fanning...

Pros: Thought-provoking, tear-jerker, funny
Cons: Might go through a box of kleenex's!

It was a hot summer night, and no one wanted to be outside when we could be in the air conditioning. My Uncle Danny, suggested this film, and so we all settled in to watch it. From the beginning, I loved it. This is the story of a Mentally Retarded...

Pros: Jerks tears of both joy and sadness from even the toughest of souls.
Cons: The ending left a little to be desired.

Sean Penn, and Michelle Pfeiffer did an excellent job acting in this movie.

Sean Penn played a man named Sam who has autisim, a mental state of a seven year old, and a low I.Q.

Michelle Pfeiffer played a lawyer, named Rita, that...

Pros: great acting, story , script.
Cons: a real tear-jerker.

This is a film worth an Oscar award. Sean Penn is Sam, a developmentally disabled man who tries to win custody of his 7-year old daughter. Michelle Pfeiffer is the lawyer who helps him in this case.
This film is a real tear jerker of a film. Many...