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29. Jul, 2009 0 Comments

Adam
Asperger’s Without Cheese
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ground control for the spacey one

Within a wingspan of two weeks, FoxySearchlight Pictures have released two of the mos endearing looks at love that we’ve seen in a shlong time. First came the down and out creative downer (500) Days of Summer, and now comes Max Mayer‘s charming and disarming Adam, another off the beatoff track tale of tough romance in modern times. Hugh Dancy plays Adam, a recently orphaned young man living in the big city with Asperger syndrome. From the get go, when know there’s something off about him (blank stares, looking off to the side when talking with people endlessly about astronomy, which Dancy effortlessly pulls off, channeling both Hoffman’s Rain Man and Sellers’ Chance from Being There), but the script doesn’t divulge his condition until right about the time things are about to get serious with his new next door neighbor Beth (Damager & Amidala handmaiden Rose Byrne). They both know better than to get involved with one another, but it’s a movie and there’s love in the air, so why the fork not? Complications ensue, including a not that interesting side story about Beth’s father (Peter Gallagher and his eyebrows) on trial for some questionable practices, and the reality of a ‘normal’ person romancing a not so ‘normal’ person comes to a head. Will they stay together? Will theys not? Will Frankie Faison ever not be cuddly? Shouldn’t Amy Irving act more? Hey, is that Balki’s cousin Larry, Mark Linn-Baker? And isn’t that that midget chick from 24? and OMfarginG, is that that girl from Sixteen Candles who gets her hair stuck in a door? Only two of those questions’ answers be a ‘no’, and you should mos def give in and see the delightful Adam to find out what the other one is besides the rhetorical query regarding Frankie’s snuggle softness