Movie Review: I Am Sam

Stars (Out of 10): 10

One Word Summary: Delightful

Full Review:

   I Am Sam is about a mentally challenged Starbucks employee who is ditched with a child. All is well until Sam's daughter Lucy begins becoming smarter than her father. When their situation is discovered by a social worker, Lucy is thrown into foster care and Sam must find a lawyer to win a case that seems impossible, yet is so important
for both Lucy and Sam's lives.

    Amazing... this movie is SO emotionally active. You'll laugh, you might cry, you'll be happy, you'll be angry etc. Let me tell you this, I decided right there in the theatre that if Sam didn't get his daughter back I would join an organization and find a way to
help people like him out! That's how great it was...

    There were so many great things about this movie! Sean Penn did an amazing job! I can't imagine anyone doing better. The cinematography was so different, and it almost made you feel like you were in the movie. The music... they took Beatles songs and had them remade, it fit perfectly into the movie and added another dimension. The dialogue, the cast, the plot... all great!

    Delightful... not much more I can say. See it once, see it twice, but if you don't see it at all, you'll never truly understand what a good movie can do!

Conclusion:  

Yahoo! Movies Description:

Drama

2 hrs. 13 min. 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.