My Name Is Sam (2020)

My Name Is Sam: Directed by Sam Wickey. With Kasha Fauscett, Sam Wickey, Reed Haymons, Wesley Juels. An Amish family (and specifically Sam, a high functioning autistic boy) and their eventual departure from the strict and often harsh Amish community they lived in.

“If I were only looking at acting and production quality, this movie would be a 1/10.nMost scenes feel like a film studentu0026#39;s first year project. They try to make it more authentic by sprinkling German here and there, but it ended up sounding very robotic, especially when the children read out their german lines expressionlessly. All of that stuff is 1/10. BUT…u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe movie was strangely interesting to watch. I enjoyed seeing the actors (not the characters) become more confident in their roles as the story progressed. It was kind of fascinating to see the actors develop their skills from beginning to end. The story itself was all over the place. There was so much story in this story that there wasnu0026#39;t much room left for anything else. Trying to follow the little-bit-of-this-little-bit-of-that plot structure was slightly painful. Even so, I gave the movie a 6/10 because I watched it all the way through and that has to be good for something.”