A story about two strangers....

...One a little stranger than the other.

Adam available now.
99 Minutes // PG-13

Adam is one of the most touching movies I have ever seen. It's been a long time since a movie has fully captured my attention from beginning to end. Since I watch a lot of my movies on my computer, I'm always pausing to check my facebook or look something up that I suddenly thought about. However, I could not and did not look away from my monitor for even a second while the movie played.

Adam is a 29-year-old who has recently lost his father. That in itself is a difficult thing to go through, but even more so is the fact that Adam is affected by Asperger's syndrome. It is a condition which often means that he cannot tell what other people are thinking simply by reading their faces, body language or figurative words. Instead Adam relies on honesty and literal meaning. He's rather blunt with his questions in order to find out what a person is really thinking, which can be construed as rude. When Adam meets Beth, he begins to have new feelings and struggles with containing his disability and showing his affections.

The part of Adam is played by Hugh Dancy, who I have only ever seen in Confessions of a Shopoholic. He was outstanding. Anyone who can play a part of a character with any type of disability that is both physically and emotionally difficult, I tip my hats to them. I compared this role to that of Leonardo DiCaprio in What's Eating Gilbert Grape, where he played a young boy with a severe mental disability. When I saw the movie at the time, I thought he was actually like that. I felt the same way about Dancy in this film. It was like he, himself, had this syndrome.

I was rooting for Adam all through the movie, to get the girl, tackle his disability and show everyone that he can live on his own. I thought the ending of this movie was absolutely perfect!