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I Am Sam
Synopsis
Sam Dawson is a mentally challenged father raising his daughter Lucy with the help of an extraordinary group of friends. As Lucy turns seven and begins to intellectually surpass her father, their close bond is threatened when their situation comes under the scrutiny of a social worker who wants Lucy placed in foster care. Faced with a seemingly unwinnable case, Sam vows to fight the legal system and forms an unlikely alliance with Rita Harrison, a high-powered, self-absorbed attorney who initially takes his case pro bona as a challenge from her colleagues. On the surface the two couldn't be further apart, but in reality they are subtly similar. Sam's compulsive nature is mirrored in Rita's more socially acceptable obsessive-compulsive nature. Together they struggle to convince the system that Sam deserves to get his daughter back and, in the process, fuse a bond that results in a unique testament to the power of unconditional love.
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Full Credits
  • Director:
    Jessie Nelson,
  • Writer:
    Kristine Johnson, Brenda Wachel, Jessie Nelson,
  • Producer:
    Edward Zwick, Ed Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz, Rick Solomon, Richard Solomon, Jessie Nelson,
  • Cinematographer:
    Elliot Davis,
  • Editor:
    Richard Chew,
  • Executive Producer:
    Claire Rudnick Polstein, Michael De Luca, David Scott Rubin,
  • Cast:
    Dianne Wiest, Sean Penn, Richard Schiff, Doug Hutchison, Dakota Fanning, Scott Paulin, Michelle Pfeiffer,
  • Associate Producer:
    Lisa Demaine,
  • First Assistant Director:
    Lisa Demaine,
  • Second Assistant Director:
    Frederic Roth,
  • Co-Producer:
    Barbara A. Hall,
  • Supervising Sound Editor:
    Joe Milner, Paul Timothy Carden,
  • Script Supervisor:
    Brenda K. Wachel,
  • Art Department Coordinator:
    Brynn McQuade,
  • Location Manager:
    Russ Fega,
  • Property Master:
    Mychael Bates,
  • Sound Effects Editor:
    Perry Robertson,
  • Dialogue Editor:
    Dennis Gray, Sarah Payan,
  • Screenplay:
    Kristine Johnson, Jessie Nelson,
  • Music Editor:
    Terry Wilson, Terry Delsing,
  • Stunts:
    Troy Brown, Tommy J. Huff, Eddie Hice, Andree Gibbs, Patricia M. Peters, James M. Halty,
  • Sound Mixer:
    Douglas Axtell,
  • Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
    Adam Jenkins, Rick Ash,
  • Stunt Coordinator:
    Andy Gill, Jack Gill, Joel Kramer, Troy Gilbert, Jimmy Romano,
  • Set Decoration:
    Garrett Lewis, Jennifer M. Gentile,
  • Costume Design:
    Susie DeSanto,
  • Still Photographer:
    Lorey Sebastian,
  • Unit Production Manager:
    Barbara A. Hall,
  • Art Direction:
    Erin Cochran,
  • Stunt Double:
    Erik Stabenau,
  • Hair Department Head:
    Bunny Parker,
  • Production Design:
    Aaron Osborne,
  • Special Effects:
    Ron Bolanowski,
  • Executive In Charge Of Production:
    Carla Fry,
  • Casting:
    Barbara Cohen, Mary Gail Artz,
  • Costume Supervisor:
    Lynda Foote,
  • Stunt Driver:
    Cazimir Milostan,
  • Makeup Department Head:
    Elisabeth Fry,
  • Original Music Composer:
    John Powell,

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