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I Am Sam (2001) poster
2001
global pct
67.4

Film · 2001 · Films · 2000s

I Am Sam

Scored from 284 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 2000s (7,847 peers).

67.4%
Global percentile
vs. all 52,376 ranked titles
72.9%
In-cohort percentile
Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
89.0%
AI-adjusted percentile
284 calibrated reviewers

Summary

Sam Dawson, a developmentally disabled man with the mental capacity of a seven-year-old, raises his daughter Lucy with the help of friends and a reclusive neighbor. When Lucy approaches the age where her intellect surpasses his, social services seeks to remove her from his custody, prompting Sam to fight for her with the help of a high-powered attorney who initially takes the case to prove a point.

I Am Sam (2001) is a film IMDb files under the drama genre.

A second review pool sits behind it as well: 10,609 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 7,846 2000s films, not against the whole corpus. 284 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 306 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track.

Is I Am Sam (2001) worth watching?

Cohort
Films · 2000s · 7,847 titles
Calibrated reviewers
284

Cohort: Films · 2000s

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