Just saw the movie I Am Sam over HBO, it's a very touching movie. It's a movie about a mentally challenged father is trying to fight his way to raise his daughter while the American justice system is trying to take it all from him due to the fact that he cannot even provide her with the basic necessity to live. Both main character Sean Penn & Dakota Fanning gives a great performance how the US law can actually take a daughter from a father she loved if he was not qualify to a certain degree.

Sean & Dakota was able to put in a lot of emotion and how they two tried to live together on a scale that she's has better intelligence than her father. As a father who loved his daughter so much, he was willing to work overtime/2nd job/bonuses in order to get to see his daughter twice a week. Trying to win his daughter back from the justice system, he enrolls the help of Rita Harrison (Michelle Pfeiffer). As Dakota's character was put into foster care, her foster mother Laura Dern tried very hard to protect her from ther father. As the plot goes on, it goes to show that even her maternal instinct cannot rival the love between the father and daughter.

Michelle Pfeiffer and Laura Dern gives so moderate performance, however with the intervention of Rita's character, this gives the movie a focus look into single working mother and how it strained her relationship with her son.

A great movie, recommended for those who like drama. Those action seekers can sit this show out.