Adam (film)

Adam is a tragicomic film from 2009, directed by Max Mayer. The main roles are played by Hugh Dancy (Adam) and Rose Byrne (Beth). Mayer came up with the idea when a autitische man was interviewed on the radio. The film was recorded in New York in december 2005 and in July 2009 screened at the Sundance Film Festival, where it is the Alfred p. SloanPrize — an award for films in which science or technology play a role — won. The film was released that same month in movie theaters. The movie Mozart and the Whale from 2006 has a similar theme. ==Story[ Edit] == Adam Raki is a young man with Asperger's syndrome who lives alone after the recent death of his father in an apartment in Manhattan. He loves astronomy and works as electrical engineer at a toy company. His fixation on details, repetitive behavior and ignorance in reading and show of emotion, however, make him lonely.

That changes enigszinds as the young teacher and aspiringchildren's author Beth Buchwald involves the apartment above his own. They meet to the laundry room and hitting despite Adams strange behavior more or less friends. In addition, nearly put an end to her after a walk if he asks if she just as he was sexually aroused at the sight ofraccoons in Central Park. If they are at the door tells Adam her his behavior by his condition. Using Beth then they start a relationship and makes them him to her parents if they accidentally bump into. As Adam then loses his job, he tells Beth that the applications are always go wrong at the job interview. She helps him prepare for such a conversation.

Beth's father has been indicted for fraud and the water is unabashedly about him as Adam uitvraagt between him and Beth equally murky. As the man turns out to be later and sentenced to two years effective Beth there devastated. Adam then discovers that the "accidental" meeting with Beth's parents in reality was planned. As Beth comes home he calls her a liar and her father a criminal, after which Beth evil departs.

Adam does not get the job for which he applied, but is a feature offered at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, on the other side of the country. By subway and on foot, he pulls to the home of Beth's parents to make amends and to ask her. Her father tries to convince her that Adam is not suitable for her and arguing with him. Beth returns home with Adam and she decides to go to California.

Overhoort Adam there Beth on the phone as she tells her mother that he never says things like "I love you". He says this then they ask him why he wants them California goes. He answer he needs her to understand the world in which it decides not to go along.

Adam decides to leave only. A year later he has worked at the Observatory and is doing its best to be more social. One day he receives a package of Beth. She has sent him her newly published first children's book, inspired by him and their relationship. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] ==