Réalisation:
Jessie NelsonPhotographie:
Elliot DavisMusique:
John PowellActeurs·trices:
Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest, Loretta Devine, Richard Schiff, Laura Dern, Doug Hutchison, Ken Jenkins, Scott Paulin (plus)Résumés(1)
A la naissance de la petite Lucy, sa mère la rejette et s'enfuit, laissant l'enfant grandir avec son père Sam Dawson, un modeste employé de café defficient mentalement. Pour ce dernier, rien au monde ne compte plus que Lucy. Cependant, après quelques années, il se voit retirer la garde de sa fille par les services sociaux qui ne le trouvent pas apte à s'occuper de son éducation. Ces derniers souhaitent la placer dans une famille d'accueil. Sam se retrouve seul, brisé, séparé de celle qu'il aime plus que tout. Il fera l'impossible pour regagner sa fille. Rita, une brillante avocate, accepte de défendre le cas de Sam. Peu à peu, par-delà les préjugés, elle découvre l'exceptionnelle force du lien entre le père et l'enfant. Lorsque le jour du jugement arrive, Sam n'a rien pour convaincre, excepté son cœur et le soutien de ses amis... (Metropolitan FilmExport)
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Critiques (2)
Massive bollocks full of archaic emotional gestures and tasteless facial expressions, I was afraid it was something by Ron Howard at the turn of the millennium. Unexpectedly, the timeframe fits, only the director is different. However, it still holds true that this cheap and simplistic squeezing of emotions from the viewer is not something you will see just anywhere, and the overacting Michelle Pfeiffer, constantly shaking her head and tossing her pompous hairstyle, neither. The editor took a sick day too. To my surprise, Sean Penn saves the day – this typically masculine actor in such a delicate and sensitive role – hat off, his acting range is admirable.
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I like Sean Penn a lot. He isn’t afraid to go all out with very serious roles. And usually, the problem doesn’t lie with him but with the movie as a whole. For example, this piece named I Am Sam isn’t a bad movie at all. It just doesn’t take the serious topic to the extreme, doesn’t explain anything. It just threw Sean Penn into the role of a mentally deficient person, and he goes all out, but that which is happening around him has to be more or less overlooked by the viewer. Well, and so that I don’t praise only Sean, I have to say that Dakota Fanning and Michelle Pfeiffer were great in their roles as well. Only, there were too many court scenes during the 2 hours and 12 minutes and it also seemed to me that everything around the social services started happening way too late. After all, if Sam was capable of taking care of his child until she was 8 years old, why wouldn’t he be able to do it in the future?
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