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Fresh:75
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Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Hugh Dancy's elegant performance as a man with Asperger's Syndrome elevates Adam, an offbeat but touching romantic comedy.
Genre: Dramas
US 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
Adam is about loving someone who's different, despite what your parents or friends may think. It's also unfortunately a won't-change-your-life cinema experience that, irrespective of its redeeming features, fails to satiate.
Top CriticBut in its earnestness, its gentleness, its determination not to sensationalise any aspect of Adam’s story it feels that a bit of drama is missing.
Top CriticAdam, which premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival, holds your attention, but the film is slow-going at times and lacks a knockout punch.
Top CriticMax Mayer has written a remarkably engaging screenplay about a relationship that isn't meant to be yet somehow is but not quite as we might expect, from this charming yet down to earth romantic comedy
Top CriticAn undeniably pleasant film about an unusual subject that just happens to be topped off by a really good performance from the massively underrated Hugh Dancy.
... a confident, surefooted dramatic comedy about an uncertain, tentative romance.
British actor Hugh Dancy manages an astonishing feat by making viewers empathize with a character that has trouble feeling empathy.
By avoiding the romantic-comedy cliches of lesser fare like The Proposal and The Ugly Truth, Mr. Mayer has given us characters to care about instead of laugh at and discard.
Dancy gets the juiciest role and wisely underplays it.
Adam and Beth are remarkably nice, likable characters, played by Dancy and Byrne without the tics and self-consciousness that more pretentious or perhaps less secure performers might have brought to the roles.
The compassionately acted Adam is a movie with something to say -- it's just not clear exactly what that something is.
Parental Content Review
Surprising tale of love and perseverance. Writer Max Mayer deals with the touchy subject beautifully, and Hugh Dancy proves to be a noteworthy star with his performance.
A very good cast of actors gets more mileage out of this material than they probably should have.
Dancy and Byrne do a fine job of portraying these two lost souls.... How unfortunate for them that they’re forced to spout miles of Mayer’s cutesy babble every time they’re close to transcendence.
It's a gentle romantic dramedy, but misfires at every turn, making for a tedious motion picture that minimizes a fascinating subject.
There's really nothing extraordinary to praise about this affecting but not particularly memorable little movie other than to point out that audiences hungering for cinematic fare outside the usual summer popcorn blockbusters will find much to like in it.
Adam is As Good as It Gets with a dash of Rain Man, movie comfort food, but still charms us through the familiar rhythms of its story.
Dancy's eye-opening performance reveals he's a bona-fide acting talent, capable of carrying a movie without ever playing to your affections.
Arriving on the scene just in time to feast on (500) Days of Summer's sloppy seconds.
August 06, 2009:
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