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Very few times when leaving the theater has someone exclaimed admiration in true acting talent, until one actor or actress blows them away with a mind-hindering performance. After the debut of I am Sam, the wonderfully complex character Sam Dawson (Penn) revives the principles of acting with a fresh taste of humanity and growth.

Dawson, a mentally handicapped father with the mentality of a 6-year-old, is desperately clinging onto custody of his daughter Lucy, played by Dakota Fanning. A social worker in fear of Lucy's ability to surpass her father intellectually in the next few years, threatens to put her into foster care. Through the help of a self-indulged lawyer, Rita Harrison (Pfieffer), who takes Sam's case pro-bono to revive her money-hungry image, the almost irreversible fate of a father and daughter's bond is tested to their last might. The relationship that unfolds between Sam and Rita grows into a learning lesson of love tested from different.

Sam personifies the......

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