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I
Am Sam (2001)
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Director:
Jessie Nelson |
COUNTRY
USA |
GENRE
Drama |
NORWEGIAN
TITLE
I Am Sam |
RUNNING
TIME
132
minutes |
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Producer:
Marshall
Herskovitz
Jessie Nelson
Richard Solomon
Edward Zwick |
Screenwriter:
Kristine
Johnson
Jessie Nelson |
Review
The intentions are good and the film is
both good-hearted, warm, well-paced and wonderfully acted. But Kristine
Johnson and Jessie Nelson's script is extremely naïve and suffers from
it. It was a good idea to approach and convey this story from a simple
and earthy point-of-view (as if partly seen from Sam's perspective), but
it isn't the perspective that is the problem here, it is the entire
nature of the story. There is a mother whose carelessness is not
accounted for, there is a non-existent social service system that at
first is implicitly criticized for not being there, and then for taking
affair when it does, and there is a girl whose wisdom goes beyond
reason. To boil it down: All very plot. That is too bad, because with a
bit more reasonable angle, this film could have been really effective,
and it would have made the sentimental pay-off scenes even more
powerful. Because, yes, there is a lot of emotion and dramatic value in
this film. And a fine display by Sean Penn and Dakota Fanning in the
leads gives us several valuable and truly moving moments.
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