Adam

Last week I watched Adam.  It is about a man, Adam, with Asperger's syndrome and the woman who moves in upstairs.  Both of them move out of their comfort zone and start falling in love.  Adam's friends urge him to pursue Beth, while Beth's parents, including her kind of creepy Dad, urge her to break it off.

It is a very touching romance and Asperger's syndrome is presented well, not as if Adam is weird and alien, but not tiptoeing around the issue.  I learned a whole lot about Asperger's from this movie without it being preachy.  However, the ending is just a little off.  There is one scene where both Beth and Adam act out of character, it's as if their was no growth in either of their characters during the movie.  It is especially noticeable on Beth's part.  I am okay with how the plot ended, but how they got to that ending was not in character.  But it's only one scene out of the whole movie, so it's okay.

I would recommend this movie for anyone who knows someone with Asperger's syndrome or who wants to know what it is like.  It is also a nice, nonstandard romantic movie.  The main reason that it is PG-13 is the F-word.  There is also some sexual content, made a little more awkward because Adam doesn't pick up Beth's emotions or needs very well and so has to ask and Beth has to be explicit, which is kind of cute in it's own way.

IMDB:  I saw this movie a couple of days before I saw X-Men, and I knew that Moira looked familiar, but I couldn't place her.  It took me 10 minutes before I made the connection, they are very different movies.