Tagline: A story about two strangers. One a little stranger than the other.
The boy and the girl in “Adam” are no ordinary characters, and their romance is anything but familiar. Soon after moving in, Beth, a brainy, beautiful writer damaged from a past relationship encounters Adam, the handsome, but odd, fellow in the downstairs apartment whose awkwardness is perplexing. Beth and Adam’s ultimate connection leads to a tricky relationship that exemplifies something universal: truly reaching another person means bravely stretching into uncomfortable territory and the resulting shake-up can be liberating.
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 (“The Jane Austen Book Club,” “Confessions of a Shopaholic”) stars as Adam, a handsome but intriguing young man who has all his life led a sheltered existence – until he meets his new neighbor, Beth (Rose Byrne, “Damages,” “28 Weeks Later,” “Knowing”), a beautiful, cosmopolitan young woman who pulls him into the outside world, with funny, touching and entirely unexpected results. Their implausible and enigmatic relationship reveals just how far two people from different realities can stretch in search of an extraordinary connection.
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Adam
Starring: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison
Directed by: Max Mayer, Haviland Morris, Terry Walters
Screenplay by: Victor Boc, Max Mayer
Release Date: July 29, 2009
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic material, sexual content and language.
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $2,150,505 (92.8%)
Foreign: $166,614 (7.2%)
Total: $2,317,119 (Worldwide)