An unknown author said “Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.” This quote really stood out to me when I was doing some online surfing after watching my movie for the week. This weekend I watched the movie I am Sam, and I have to say it was one of the saddest and most touching movies I have seen in a long time. It is and older movie, but I guess I must have missed it when it came out. For those of you who have not seen the movie I am Sam, here is a short summary for you…
A mentally challenged father with the brain of approximately a seven year old is left to care for his daughter. The first years seem to go ok because Sam is able to care for his baby girl Lucy while working at star buck’s, but when Lucy reaches the age of seven her teachers believe Sam is holding her back from progressing mentally. She is taken out of his custody and with luck Sam is able to accidentally get the help of a lawyer who is too good to work for anyone pro bono. Through a struggle of fights between Sam and Lucy and tear jerking court hearings in the end they come to an agreement of joint custody between Lucy’s adoptive family and her father Sam.
My short summary does not do the movie justice; however, it really sums up the quote I mentioned earlier. Lucy’s adoptive father could be her father, but only Sam had the special touch and love that Lucy could call dad. A dad’s love for her daughter should never be underestimated, in the end Lucy wanted to be with her dad no matter what. In the end Sam’s love prevailed over his defects and mistakes. In the end things were the way they should be a dad with his daughter. In the end it was Lucy and Sam.
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This was a great movie, you wrote a very good review for it. The real fight in the movie was convincing someone their life worked when the reasoning came from seeing on the inside, and everyone was onlt trying to judge from the outside. Lucy and Sam worked, and there relationship seemed to help both. But from the outside all people could see was everything that COULD go wrong.
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