That's What I Am
12-year-old Andy Nichol learns about appearances, tolerance and other concepts when his teacher pairs him with the school's biggest outcast and social pariah to work on a class project, which change the lives of both young men, and their teacher, forever.
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11 September 1950, Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 March 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
9 October 1958, Corpus Christi, Texas, USA
22 September 1993, Reno, Nevada, USA
20 September 1993, Houma, Louisiana, USA
28 July 1959, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
26 March 1997, Freehold, New Jersey, USA
22 July 1998, Arlington, Texas, USA
29 July 1996, Houma, Louisiana, USA
8 December 1960, McAllen, Texas, USA
4 April 1996, La Jolla, California, USA
12 February 1993, Arlington, Texas, USA
16 August 1963, New York City, New York, USA
21 January 1997, Boise, Idaho, USA
July 12, 2011
That's What I Am isn't a movie, sadly, it's an unreconstructed piece of television and one that's suffused with the values of the US networked shows of yesteryear.
April 29, 2011
An entertaining, well-made plea for tolerance...
April 27, 2011
Lessons are learned, bullies get their comeuppance, and every Wonder Years plot device is trotted out for maximum and-I-was-never-the-same-again nostalgia.
May 21, 2011
It means to be an earnest, uplifting family film, but the movie evinces a fitful attention span, and director Mike Pavone never comes up with a way to successfully stitch together all its disparate, capital-I issues.
January 13, 2013
The only half-decent picture to come out of World Wrestling Entertainment's years-long experiment with making movies
April 29, 2011
Since a large portion of the film is taken up with the theme of school bullying, it may have some contemporary relevance, but good intentions do not always a good movie make.
April 28, 2011
A forgettable title and a barely there theatrical release don't do justice to the captivating and nostalgic coming-of-age dramedy "That's What I Am"...
April 04, 2012
Message movie about tolerance has a few mature themes.
May 09, 2011
Charming but conventionally plotted, it's a gentle ride that's lit up by compelling turns from Harris and Ellison.
April 28, 2011
A placard preceding the film's title card assures that it's "inspired by true events," but the note is unnecessary, given the limpness of the narrative arcs. Who would make up such an anticlimactic story?
May 09, 2011
The latest (and by far most sneaky) attempt to slip one of its wrestlers into multiplexes, WWE Films' That's What I Am is surprisingly low on testosterone.
April 28, 2011
Mr. Harris's depiction of a saintly, soft-spoken, bow-tie-wearing middle-school teacher lends the movie a moral weight it probably couldn't have summoned had another actor played the role.
