This film offers up what is quite possibly the single greatest title in the history of cinema. The name alone is absolute perfection. All joking aside, this tale of a complicated relationship between two twenty-something's from opposite ends of the tracks, benefits from wonderful performances by Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne. They are able to rise above the surprisingly conventional material. Dancy excels as the title character, a sweet natured individual who suffers from Aspberger's Syndrome (don't laugh at the name--it's a condition that bares a resemblance to autism) while Byrne oozes likability as Beth, the young woman who finds herself drawn to this most complex individual. The film works tremendously well when its simply delving into Beth and Adam's complicated relationship (true, most relationships are complicated but Adam's condition adds a distinct wrinkle to the complication), but the story stalls when it slips into the duldrum conventions of a cliched sub plot involving Beth's flawed and disapproving father (played by Peter Gallagher). Adam lacks the all out creativity of the year's strongest expose on relationships, Marc Webb's brilliantly concieved 500 Days of Summer, but the performances by Dancy and Byrne make the film worth checking out.

Grade: B-