Adam Raki (Hugh Dancy), an electronics engineer, suffers from a developmental disorder called Asperger syndrome. When a young woman named Beth (Rose Byrne) moves into his apartment building, Adam is quite taken with her. Beth does not know quite how to react to Adam's unconventional overtures, but decides to give him a chance nonetheless. But Beth's parents are apprehensive about their daughter's... new romance, which could end the young lovers' relationship before it has a chance to grow.
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A sensitive film of much charm, Adam stars Hugh Dancy in the title role as a brilliant young electronic engineer. He's nice-looking but awfully uptight. Not long after the death of his father, with whom he shared a Manhattan apartment, Adam meets new neighbor Beth (Rose Byrne), who's beautiful and outgoing. Intrigued by Adam, Beth gradually attempts to break through his perplexing shell.
In time, she gains Adam's trust and he at last explains that he has Asperger's syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism. He reveals his difficulty in discerning what others are thinking and feeling, his social unease and need for absolute honesty from others. He also...
Adam Hugh Dancy stars as a New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome who, after losing his father, begins a tentative relationship with a neighbour in his apartment block. Rose Byrne co-stars
A love story that tries extremely hard not to turn itself into a 'disability' movie, Adam is a sensitively hewn film from start to finish. While the likes of Rain Man and A Beautiful Mind could be accused of presenting those with, respectively, autism or schizophrenia as eccentric geniuses, Max Mayer's film tries not to make that mistake. Rather, its protagonist, Adam Raki (Hugh Dancy) who suffers from Asperger's syndrome, is an ordinary New Yorker, living in an apartment th...
This is a sweet and pleasant story.
The acting was spot on for the characters.
Left me smiling, doesn't get better than that!
:-)
PS. Sevenplanets comment about the female lead is not at all accurate. This person was likely dozing too much to catch the actual story being presented.
