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56 out of 100

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8.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 36 Ratings

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  • Starring: Hugh Dancy, Peter Gallagher, Rose Byrne
  • Summary: Romance can be risky, perplexing and filled with the perils of miscommunication - and that's if you aren't Adam, for whom life itself is this way. Adam is a handsome but intriguing young man who has all his life led a sheltered existence - until he meets his new neighbor, Beth, a beautiful, cosmopolitan young woman who pulls him into the outside world, with funny, touching and entirely unexpected results. Their implausible and enigmatic relationship reveals just how far two people from different realities can stretch in search of an extraordinary connection. (Fox Searchlight Pictures)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 27
  3. Negative: 1 out of 27
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    Subtlety and nuance mark both the film's dialogue and performances. It's hard to see how Dancy and Byrne could be any better.
  2. Empire
    Reviewed by: Anna Smith
    60
    A very superficial look at what it may be like trying to romance someone on the autistic scale.
  3. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Kimberley Jones
    30
    This is the kind of movie in which every other line of dialogue feels like a metaphor – and from there on, the film seesaws between the uncomfortable extremes of glum and twee: an overwrought dirge keyed to a xylophonic ping.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. SheilaM
    10
    Charming, thought-provoking and delightful.
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  2. MichaelN
    10
    As a person with Asperger's, I think this movie is completely accurate in depicting what the disorder is like. I think it is safe to say that the Film Threat reviewer does not have the disorder, otherwise she would realize how well the writers and the actor, Hugh Dancy put this character together. It was such a beautiful movie, because a lot of people with the disorder are misunderstood, and that was another thing represented well in the movie. It showed people without the disorder that people with Asperger's are just as much of people as everyone else, and even better is that it showed people with the disorder the same thing. I would highly recommend this movie to anybody, whether you have Asperger's Syndrome or not.… Expand
    • 1 of 1 users said yes
  3. ChristopherR.
    4
    Boring!
    • 0 of 2 users said yes

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