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I Am Sam is a powerful, emotional movie that explores the life of a mentally handicapped man that has a child with a homeless woman who does not want anything to do with the child, so Sam is forced to raise her on his own. This situation is fine until the child develops higher intellectually than her own father, who is about the age of a seven year old. Sam goes to court to show that he is capable of taking care of Lucy. At this time he receives help from a neighbor lady who is agoraphobic. She watches Lucy for Sam when he cannot take her to work. A funny scene where Lucy gets Sam in trouble is at Sam’s job, Starbucks, when she spills a drink down the front of this lady. Sam has a support system of friends that are handicapped as well. They meet at IHOP every week to have pancakes
The turning point of the movie is when Sam takes Lucy to a Halloween party, and her friends make fun of Sam for being himself and call him retarded and this embarrasses Lucy. Lucy says that she......

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