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MPAA Rating: PG13
Director: Jessie Nelson
Genre: Courtroom Drama, Melodrama, Message Movie, Drama
Release Date: December 28, 2001 (USA
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Summary:
Sean Penn stars in this drama as Sam Dawson, a developmentally disabled adult who has been working at a coffee shop and raising his daughter Lucy (Dakota Fanning) for seven years. Sam receives help in his parenting duties from a circle of trusted confidantes, including his ADD-afflicted best friend Ifty (Doug Hutchison), the paranoid Robert (Stanle... Full Summary >>

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Cast:
Sean Penn - (Sam Dawson)
Michelle Pfeiffer - (Rita Harrison)
Dakota Fanning - (Lucy)
Dianne Wiest - (Annie)
Loretta Devine - (Margaret Calgrove)
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Review:
For a film that's waterlogged in bathos, it features a brilliant performance from the ever-versatile and surprising Sean Penn, who is a shocker not just for the technical achievement of his role but for the warmth he injects into it. Maybe it's real- ... Continue >>

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