maybe it be the beautifully redone beatles song and or the fact that the film have to do with adoption ( which i myself be adopt ) or maybe it have to do with the fact that i could relate to michelle pfeiffer character so much drinking diet drink and use that voice activate cell phone or driving and live too fast and but the film hit me . and hit me hard . i think sam have a very valuable lesson to teach michelle pfeiffer character rita . and teach u all . all you do need be love . whose child have the good existence . sam daughter . or his lawyer rita son . i think i would rather be with a retarded father than parent who be never home and do not give a sh^ # t . this movie make me take a hard look at how i act and live and how maybe if we just have a little more love for ourselves and others that perhaps thing will be well . great film and score and soundtrack and actor and word and script . i do not care what the critic say or this b about it be so easy to play a retarded man with limited emotionssince when do mentally handicap people have limit emotion . i can not believe a leading critic say that . whatever . he the one with the limited emotion . i be sam slightly change my life and i will never see thing quite the same again while ) ) i give this film a 10 . something i do not do too often .