Olympus Pictures just announced a new independent film that’s set to compete in this years Sundance Film festival. The movie is a love story about a man with Aspergers who falls in love with his upstairs neighbor, and the trials they face in their relationship.
The movie “Adam” stars Hugh Dancy as Adam a man with Aspergers Syndrome who falls in love with Beth (played by Rose Byrne) who moves into the apartment above him.
Too add twists to the plot Beth’s family supposedly is in the middle of a crisis that continues to escalate that challenges the love of the two.
- Director and Screenplay: Max Mayer
- Producers: Leslie Urdang, Miranda de Pencier, Dean Vanech
- Executive Producers: Christina Weiss-Lurie, Daniel Revers
- Cast Includes: Hugh Dancy, Rose Byrne, Peter Gallagher, Amy Irving, Frankie Faison
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Not another one, the trouble is I have to agree for once with Stuart Murray’s interpretation that this is all about objectification and exceptionality for once.
Essentially drawing attention to our supposed defecits by drawing attention to normality whilst pointing out the difference at the same time.
Not really there.
Whilst I will not vouch for my own romantic engagements cos romantic I am not, I will say in my experience the existence of aspie couples and indeed couples where one is aspie and another is not, is not really exceptional at all and certainly not worth the Hollywood treatment which I regard essentially as insult and degredation as if it were a nineteenth century missionary writing about the mating rituals of some obscure (and from there perspective bizarre) African tribe.
Well maybe you could call it sour grapes, I may have a seventies porn star tache, but I doubt if I am ever going to be cast in any movie in the raunchy scenes
This film sounds like it’s going to be another patronising pat on the head for us. A pat on the head that wants to show the public that aspies are Very Special People and not completely stupid and backward after all (But still much more stupid and backward than the normal, proper people).
It’s completely pointless as well, because there are a good percentage of (shock, horror) real life aspies who are dating or married to NTs! Who’d have thought it eh, Hollywood directors? Strange isn’t it, how these cute, funny little people can actually have a relationship of their own with people who aren’t even their sort!
Yes. Cute and funny. That’s how they’re going to portray us. Why do I have a problem with that? Because I’m a person, not a newborn kitten. Kittens are cute and funny, teenage and adult aspie humans are normally not.
Also, who else can tell that they’ll portray this guy as an ‘idiot savant’? What’s the bet he’ll spend half the film quoting random bits of physics, can’t understand jokes or sarcasm AT ALL, still lives with his parents, is a 100% ‘nice’ man who never does anything wrong or says anything rude, only listens to classical music and has learnt no social skills at all despite being well into his twenties or thirties- and I mean none. Trust me, this guy won’t even know why it isn’t a good idea to go up to strangers and ask them Why They’re So Fat.
If I watch this film, it’ll be out of morbid curiosity.
Wow, another one? I loved Mozart and the Whale, so maybe this one will be good too! When does it come out? Will it be in theatres? I want to see it. ^^
Sounds like “Knocked Up” and “Revenge of the Nerds” and so on. Ever notice how in Hollywood movies “quirky” guys get “hot” girls far more often than “quirky” girls get “hot” guys?