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| | Sam the Man (2000): Fisher Stevens, Annabella Sciorra, Saverio Guerra, John Slattery - PopMatters Film Review |
 | | I hoped, too, to find this question answered in the commentary track featuring Stevens, who co-wrote the script, and the director, but it wasn't to be. |
 | | Which works, for the most part (though Stevens and Winick's query on the commentary track as to whether or not audiences would want Sam and Cass together makes me wonder if they didn't realize the extent of his awfulness). |
 | | Rather, the film is about the all-consuming nature of art, how creative people -- albeit slightly mental ones like Sam, who, the commentary reveals, is partly based on Stevens -- use their lives as research, often forgetting their responsibilities to others, and the fact that other people don't share their philosophies. |
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