Sam & Me
Sam & Me is a 1991 Canadian drama film directed by Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta (in her directorial debut) and written by Ranjit Chowdhry, who also stars in the film with Peter Boretski and Om Puri. The film went on to win an honourable mention at the Cannes Film Festival. Plot
23-year-old Nikhil, an Indian immigrant, has just arrived to Canada looking forward to working with his uncle at a hospital-supply business. Nikhil is begrudgingly convinced by his uncle to also be a caregiver and companion to Sam Cohen, an elderly, cantankerous Jewish man. Sam does not get along with his adult son Morris, who owns the business Nikhil works for. As an unlikely friendship forms between Nikhil and Sam, both men gain new insight into life. 