Year			2002
Genre			Comedy
Rating			PG
Parents			Offensive language
Length			2:12
Director			Jessie Nelson
Writer			Jessie Nelson Kristine Johnson
Company			Alliance Vivafilm
Starring			Sean Penn Michelle Pfeiffer Dakota Fanning Doug Hutchison Stanley DeSantis Brad Silverman Show more... Sean Penn Michelle Pfeiffer Dakota Fanning Doug Hutchison Stanley DeSantis Brad Silverman Loretta Devine Laura Dern Will Wallace Janet Adderly Dianne Wiest Jenna Boyd Russ Fega Wendy Phillips Joseph Rosenberg
Links			Official Web Site

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.