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Drama 132 min PG-13
Love is all you need.
Sam, a neurodivergent man, has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them when they leave the hospital, leaving Sam to raise Lucy on his own. But as Lucy grows up, Sam's limitations as a parent start to become a problem and the authorities take her away. Sam convinces high-priced lawyer Rita to take his case pro bono and in turn teaches her the value of love and family.
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Spare, overwhelming, intimate and earnest.
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Sam (Sean Penn), a mentally disabled man who must fight for custody of his young daughter, is aided by a tightly wound lawyer (Michelle Pfeiffer) who, in the course of discovering her client's essential humanity, discovers her own as well. The movie is a patchwork of tearjerker cliches, a number of which work quite ef…
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