Adam (2009 film)
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Adam is a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Max Mayer and starring Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne. The film follows the relationship between a young autistic man named Adam (Dancy), and Beth (Byrne). Mayer was inspired to write the film's script when he heard a radio interview with a man who had Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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Directed by | Max Mayer |
Written by | Max Mayer |
Produced by | Miranda de Pencier Leslie Urdang Dean Vanech |
Starring | Hugh Dancy Rose Byrne Frankie Faison Mark Linn-Baker Amy Irving Peter Gallagher |
Cinematography | Seamus Tierney |
Edited by | Grant Myers |
Music by | Christopher Lennertz |
Production company | Olympus Pictures |
Distributed by | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
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Running time | 99 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $3.2 million[1] |
Box office | $2.6 million[2] |
Filming took place in New York City in December 2005. The film premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize, and was released in the United States on July 29, 2009. The release date in Canada and the UK was 7 August 2009 in Australia, and everywhere else after Labor Day.