Adam (2009)

[lsanderson]

Rose Byrne and Hugh Dancy are neighbors in a scene from Max Mayer’s “Adam,” a romantic comedy set in New York City.
July 29, 2009
Desire and Disability: An Engineer’s Inner Battle
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: July 29, 2009

Playing a character who is mentally disabled can be a fast track to Oscar or to oblivion, and rare is the actor who can resist the statuette-winning, Hanks-Hoffman strategy of mannered tics and mechanical talk. And when you consider that not even Sean Penn could pull it off without making our eyeballs cringe, the performance of Hugh Dancy in the charming romantic comedy “Adam” is all the more impressive. More

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[jmanna.livejournal.com]

I have a friend who's son has Asperger’s and he's really enthusiastic about this movies. He watched the trailer and thought it was a decently accurate portrayal of someone with the syndrome.

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[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

I published the listing.