I Am Sam

Released Year: 2001

Certificate: PG-13

Runtime: 132 minutes

Genre: Drama

IMDB Rating:

Meta Score: 28

Director: Jessie Nelson

Stars: Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dakota Fanning, Dianne Wiest

No of Votes: 142863

Gross: 40311852

Overview: A mentally handicapped man fights for custody of his 7-year-old daughter and in the process teaches his cold-hearted lawyer the value of love and family.

Similar Movies

The Peanut Butter Falcon

Zak runs away from his care home to make his dream of becoming a wrestler come true.

In America

A family of Irish immigrants adjust to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

21 Grams

A freak accident brings together a critically ill mathematician, a grieving mother, and a born-again ex-con.

Synecdoche, New York

A theatre director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he creates a life-size replica of New York City inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

Rain Man

Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.

Moon

Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet's power problems.

Captain Fantastic

In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.

Finding Neverland

The story of Sir J.M. Barrie's friendship with a family who inspired him to create Peter Pan.

Manchester by the Sea

A depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.

Scent of a Woman

A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.

Sense and Sensibility

Rich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the title opposites.

Seven Pounds

A man with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.