I am Sam [videorecording] / Avery Pix ; Bedford Falls Productions ; New Line Cinema ; Red Fish Blue Fish Films ; producers, Marshall Herskovitz, Jessie Nelson, Richard Solomon, Edward Zwick ; writers, Kristine Johnson & Jessie Nelson ; director, Jessie Nelson.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: N5537 | New Line Home EntertainmentSeries: New Line platinum seriesPublication details: [United States] : New Line Home Entertainment, [2002]Description: 1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:- 0780638158
- Cinematography, Elliot Davis ; editor, Richard Chew ; music, John Powell.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD | Main Library | DVD | DRAMA I am Sam | Available | 33111009123858 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A mentally challenged man struggles with the burden of fatherhood while raising his seven-year-old daughter.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.
Special features: Filmmaker commentary with director/co-screenwriter Jessie Nelson; original documentary "Becoming Sam"; deleted/alternate scenes with optional director commentary; theatrical trailer.
Cinematography, Elliot Davis ; editor, Richard Chew ; music, John Powell.
Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning.
Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need.
MPAA rating: PG-13.
DVD.
Closed-captioned.