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Sean Penn is Amazing. A truely touching story of love and reality.

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Posted jun 6, 2009 10:08 am pt

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This has to be one of the best movie I ever watch. It had a very good story line. and a great cast in the movie. This film is worth watching.

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Posted sep 12, 2007 2:27 am pt

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Crying is not an option in this movie.

I loved every single moment in this film, it was incredibly touching. Dekota Fanning and Sean Penn's acting was convincing, and their on screen chemistry is overwhelming.
This is probably...
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Crying is not an option in this movie.

I loved every single moment in this film, it was incredibly touching. Dekota Fanning and Sean Penn's acting was convincing, and their on screen chemistry is overwhelming.
This is probably one of the most beautiful and meaningful movies I've ever seen.

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Posted jun 29, 2007 2:58 am pt

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the saddest and most moving movie i've ever seen

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Posted may 20, 2007 8:17 am pt

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tHIS sUCKS

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Posted mar 7, 2007 3:04 am pt

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the truth of the matter is that i've never finished watching this movie in one sitting. im crying most of the time. it is absolutely one of the best movies i have ever seen. (though part by part.. lol) sean penn was just amazing! and so is dakota...
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the truth of the matter is that i've never finished watching this movie in one sitting. im crying most of the time. it is absolutely one of the best movies i have ever seen. (though part by part.. lol) sean penn was just amazing! and so is dakota fanning.. i have a weak heart for stories like this and this just melted my heart..

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Posted mar 6, 2007 4:01 pm pt

• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
  75
  Not about the justice or injustice of the legal system. Rather it's about the tragedy of Sam's predicament.

  by Mick LaSalle | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  75
  Penn makes us take the leap required by Kristine Johnson and Jessie Nelson's screenplay -- you end up deeply caring about Sam and Lucy.

  by Lou Lumenick | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
  70
  A warm, hard-to-resist story.

  by Kevin Thomas | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  70
  Penn's stark and unvarnished portrait of the challenged Sam makes even the hardest-to-swallow plot acceptable.

  by Frank Lovece | Read Full Review »
• [+] Boston Globe
  
  63
  Ham-handedly manipulative film.

  by Jay Carr | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  63
  The role sounds like a sentimental trap, but Penn doesn't fall into it. It's a sensational performance, and he illumines a movie that sometimes seems in danger of descending into modish Hollywood political correctness.

  by Michael Wilmington | Read Full Review »
• [+] Charlotte Observer
  
  50
  The cancer of dishonesty begins to grow half an hour into the film, and it riddles the picture by the end.

  by Lawrence Toppman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Slate
  
  50
  Just don't believe the anti-hype. There are lots of reasons to have a good cry these days -- here's a nice, warm place to get squeezed.

  by David Edelstein | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  50
  The kind of performance Penn delivers in I Am Sam, which may look hard, is easy, compared, say, to his amazing work in Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown."

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  
  42
  I can imagine the pitch meeting: "It's 'Kramer vs. Kramer' meets 'Forrest Gump.' No, wait, 'Rainman' has a baby!"

  by Sean Axmaker | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
  42
  The dumbing down of low-IQ sentimentality.

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
  40
  Not a bad movie, and its intentions are unimpeachable. But its sentimentality is so relentless and its narrative so predictable that the life is very nearly squeezed out of it.

  by Dana Stevens | Read Full Review »
• [+] Time
  
  40
  As the director of this noble weepie, Nelson so overuses visual tricks -- zooms, zip pans and multiple perspectives on a simple scene -- that she turns the viewer into an exasperated parent; this is a directorial style in need of a spanking.

  by Richard Corliss | Read Full Review »
• [+] LA Weekly
  
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  By-the-numbers Oscar bait -- but Penn does manage, against such odds, to make us see Sam as a person, not a performance.

  by F. X. Feeney | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
  38
  There's only one excuse for the sentimental and ham-handed I Am Sam, and it's not to tout the rights of the mentally disabled.

  by Connie Ogle | Read Full Review »