![]() ![]() ![]() At least until he is "accidentally arrested". Aided by a quartet of developmentally disabled friends and his agoraphobic neighbor, Annie Cassell Dianne Wiest, we see Sam doing his best to raise the girl, Lucy Diamond Dawson eventually played by Dakota Fanning -so named because Sam is a big Beatles fan. A woman is in labor and it turns out that he's the father, but she wants nothing to do with him afterward-apparently, it was something like a one night stand. We see Sam running through the streets, catching buses and so on to end up at a hospital. Suddenly, his boss tells him that he has to go. Because of this, he's given only menial tasks to do. He lives in Santa Monica and works at Starbucks. I can only blame myself for putting off watching her work for so long.I Am Sam begins with Sam Dawson Sean Penn at his job. Rotten eggs.But I won't bill director/co-writer Jessie Nelson, because it's not her fault that her film is so powerful and so stunningly constructed that it made me monosyllabic. ![]()
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