Sure, it's complicated, but isn't that always true of romance? And doesn't it blow the hinges off the universe -- every single time?
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08/21/09
Adam (2009)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:20
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Hugh Dancy's elegant performance as a man with Asperger's Syndrome elevates Adam, an offbeat but touching romantic comedy.
Rated: PG-13 [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Jul 29, 2009 Limited
Box Office: $2,121,118
Synopsis: Romance can be risky, perplexing and filled with the perils of miscommunication -- and that's if you aren't ADAM, for whom life itself is this way. In this heartfelt romantic comedy, Hugh Dancy... [More]
Starring: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Frankie Faison, Mark Linn-Baker
Director: Max Mayer
Reviews for Adam
Top CriticThere's no getting around the character's plight as an eternal outsider or the natural sympathy it draws. But writer-director Mayer never loses control of this fact, offering a story that's both sweet and tart, unique and familiar.
08/21/09
Top CriticThe two of them look terrific together, too -- enough so that you wish someone would cast them together in a much better movie.
08/14/09
Top CriticAdam is a minor, tolerably enjoyable romance that doesn't add up to anything much.
08/13/09
Top CriticWere it not for the fine engaging performances of both Dancy and Byrne, Adam would be sickly sweet.
08/07/09
Top CriticWritten and directed by Max Mayer, this anodyne romantic comedy is as predictable as the alphabet but should hold particular appeal to women whose maternal impulses inflect their mating instincts.
08/07/09
Top CriticThe film rides on Dancy's wonderfully authentic performance.
08/07/09
Top CriticAt its best, Adam makes the viewer understand the frustration of living in a world in which everyone is a stranger.
08/07/09
Top CriticWhile it’s probable that this movie will bring Asperger’s to an audience that’s never heard of or experienced it, it’s also likely to bore them.
08/06/09
Top CriticTo its credit, Adam doesn't go for the cheap, easy solution. In that way, the film shares something of the spirit (and realism?) of (500) Days of Summer: an acknowledgment that not every close encounter, no matter how meaningful, can last forever.
08/06/09
Top CriticAdam wraps up the story in too tidy a package, insisting on finding the upbeat in the murky, and missing the chance to be more thoughtful about this challenging situation.
08/06/09
Top CriticHugh Dancy is really spectacular in this film.
08/03/09
Top CriticA sweet, atypical love story.
08/03/09
Top CriticHugh Dancy, so often just a bland safe boyfriend in femme-oriented films, gives an ironically heartfelt performance as the emotionally insulated Adam.
07/31/09
Top CriticAdam succeeds at getting inside its hero's mind and, more impressively still, gives us entrée to his singular soul.
07/31/09
Top CriticAdam is a cut above most romances and boasts a intriguing conclusion. One comes away with a sense of hope, leavened by realism.
07/30/09
Top CriticI'm sorry to report that beyond that educational element and the delicate performances of Dancy and Byrne, I found Adam dramatically limp, predictable and in a curious way even retrograde.
07/30/09
Top CriticOther than Rose Byrne's on-screen radiance and a soothingly warm palette lit by cinematographer Seamus Tierney, there's not much to get passionate about in this amiable chamberpiece from theater director Max Mayer.
07/30/09
Top CriticThe beautifully crafted Adam offers no pat or easy answers to wrenching questions.
07/29/09
Top CriticHugh Dancy plays a Manhattan engineer who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome in this charming romantic comedy.
07/29/09
Top CriticLatest News for Adam
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