from New Line Cinema
Directed by
Jessie Nelson
Starring
Sean
Penn (Sam)
Michelle
Pfeiffer (Rita)
Laura
Dern (Randy)
Loretta
Devine (Margaret)
Doug
Hutchison (Ifty)
Richard
Schiff
Dianne
Wiest
Stanley DeSantis (Robert)
Dakota Fanning (Lucy)
Scott Paulin (Duncan Rhodes)
Wendy Phillips (Ms. Wright)
Kathleen Robinson
Joseph Rosenberg (Joe)
Eileen Ryan (Estelle)
Brad Silverman (Brad)
Will Wallace (Bill)
Written by
Kristine Johnson
Jessie Nelson
Rated: 
(for language) |
 Sam Dawson (Sean
Penn) is a mentally-challenged father raising his daughter Lucy
(Dakota Fanning) with the help of an extraordinary group of friends.
As Lucy turns seven and begins to intellectually surpass her
father, their close bond is threatened when their situation comes
to the attention of a social worker who wants Lucy placed in
foster care. Faced with a seemingly unwinnable case, Sam vows
to fight the legal system and forms an unlikely alliance with
Rita Harrison (Michelle Pfeiffer), a high-powered, self-absorbed
attorney who takes his case pro bona as a challenge from her
colleagues. Together they struggle to convince the system that
Sam deserves to get his daughter back and, in the process, fuse
a bond that results in a unique testament to the power of unconditional
love.
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