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I Am David
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Writers (WGA):
Anne Holm (novel)
Paul Feig (screenplay)
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Release Date:
5 November 2004 (UK) more
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Believe in the power to change your destiny
Plot:
I Am David is adapted from Anne Holm's internationally acclaimed novel of the same name (re-titled North to Freedom in the USA)... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
8 wins & 1 nomination more
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British Producer Parsons Dies
 (From WENN. 21 August 2009, 12:06 PM, PDT)

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Surprisingly well adapted... as moving as the novel. more (73 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Ben Tibber ... David

James Caviezel ... Johannes (as Jim Caviezel)
Joan Plowright ... Sophie

Hristo Shopov ... The Man
Silvia De Santis ... Elsa
Paco Reconti ... Giovanni
Roberto Attias ... Baker
Francesco De Vito ... Roberto
Paul Feig ... American Man

Lucy Russell ... American Woman
Maria Bonnevie ... David's Mother
Viola Carinci ... Maria
Marin Jivkov ... Cecha
Robert Syulev ... Angelo
Alessandro Sperduti ... Carlo
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Rated PG for thematic elements and violent content.
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90 min | Turkey:84 min (TV version)
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Stewart Copeland, drummer for rock band "The Police", composed the original soundtrack for the film. For inspiration, Copeland immersed himself in Eastern European Gypsy and folk music. more
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Continuity: In the belly of the ship, David lights a match. In one shot, the match is burnt almost in half. In the next shot, it is a newly-lit match. more
Quotes:
David: Is that what I look like?
Sophie: To me, yes. That's my impression of you. That's why it's called impressionistic painting. So... What do you see when you look at it.
David: Me.
Sophie: Yes, that's not quite what I meant. You have to look at paintings diffently from the way you look at other things. More closely and see what it says to you.
[pause]
Sophie: Well... when I look at the boy in that painting, I see a very intelligent, very serious person, and a good person, but - there's something about the eyes and the face that seems lost and sad. But that's as far as I can see, because he doesn't want to let the world see any further.
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Referenced in The Benchwarmers (2006) more
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Ruphinka is Taken Ill more

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31 out of 33 people found the following review useful.
Surprisingly well adapted... as moving as the novel., 21 July 2005
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Author: playgrrrll from Queensland, Australia

I have read Anne Holm's I am David dozens of times since I first stumbled upon it as a 12 year old. It has been one of those novels that have remained with me, not just the pages, not just the story, but the way it has moved me and guided many of my decisions in life. I personally empathised with David, having been an abused child and when at 13 I became a state ward, the impossibility of trusting others to care for me were mirrored in David's own situation. This just to demonstrate how significant this work has been in my own development and connected I am with David's story.

When I heard there was a film made of this story, I was suspicious that it could not hope to reach the depths of the novel, particularly as one of the fundamental points of the novel had been changed and primarily because much of the 'action' in the novel occurs inside David's mind.

The film is significantly different to the novel in a few key details and yet it has managed to capture the essential soul of the novel, something I applaud and profoundly appreciate. Whilst the means of achieving the result is different, I was still left, as I always am when I read the story, with a deep sense of truth and love winning out over darkness and hatred. I was moved to tears once again and for all the same reasons and for that I would just like to say thank you to those involved.

I could not recommend this novel or film more deeply, particularly to those who's lives have been controlled by others who don't have their best interests at heart and who feel unable to regain control themselves. This above all things is a tribute to the ability of one who has no control and no idea how to gain control of their own lives succeeding in just that, without use of force, without manipulation or dishonesty, but simply with conviction that the goal must be achieved for whatever reason, because to not achieve it is to invite death and darkness upon yourself and upon all you touch in your life.

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