Elements of Drama in the Movie I Am Sam

ELEMENTS OF DRAMA

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Theme
The movie I am Sam is 2001 American drama film which was directed by Jessie Nelson.
This movie was written by Christine Johnson and Jessie Nelson. The movie was released on
December 28, 2001 within United States and in other countries on January 25, 2002. The running
time of the movie is 132 minutes and is made in English language and the budget was dollar 22
million and box office collection was 97.8 million. The theme of the movie included starting
Sean Penn as a father who is having an intellectual disability, Dakota fanning who is his
daughter and Michael Pfeiffer as his lawyer (Sen, 2021). The major theme of the movie is that
the film plays with the emotion of the viewer and left them with confusion, happy and sad
emotion at the single time. In addition to this it also involve different emotion like empathy,
parenthood, determination, love and many other themes at the same time.
Plot
The plot of the movie was like a man Sam Dawson was having intellectual disability who
is a single father of Lucy who is 6 to 7 years old abundant by a mother. Sam has a supportive
group of friends with disabilities and agoraphobic neighbour any who takes care of Lucy when
Sam cannot take care of her. In addition to this Sam provides a living place to Lucy surpassing
his mental ability. In addition to this other children bully her for having an intellectually disabled
father and because of this she gets embarrassed. In danger of losing the custody Sam is advised
by his friends to hire a lawyer Rita Harrison. Rita because of her work is neglecting her son who
is also handicapped as Sam. While working on the case with some it assisted Rita in having a
new life. This included the fact that I was encouraged to leave her philandering husband and
make his relationship with his son proper. At the trial Sam cried and after that leaves seen resides
at the foster home with Randy carpenter but tries to convince him to help her and the wave. She
is kept in the middle of the night and went to Sam's house. However the foster parents decided
not to talk to her as they have planned and returned her to Sam for stop in addition to this Randy
assured him that she will tell the judge that some is better parent for Lucy (Kangogo, 2020).
After that some asked Randy to help him in raising Lucy as he felt that she also needs a mother
for stop in the final scene a soccer game was depicted where in Sam referees and Lucy