Maybe it was personal, but I really loved Adam. It is a film about a young electronics engineer named Adam who has Asperger's Syndrome. For those of you who don't know, Asperger's is a mental handicap wherein the person is usually very very smart (often they make excellent scientists and engineers) but have no social/emotional skills. Their brains are not wired to sense facial and other physical signs of emotion in other people. They are wired to always tell the truth, which can make for very awkward social situations where white lies are required.

Anyway, a young and very attractive woman school teacher named Beth moves into the apartment above Adam's. They become friends and eventually more. Adam loves astrophysics and quantum physics (I really identified with him here) as hobbies, and has turned his apartment into a planetarium. This delights Beth and starts the attraction between them. There are funny moments when his bluntness nearly turns into social disasters and sad moments when he reverts to child-like Asperger's behaviours.

There are great side roles, namely Adam's older black friend Harlan, who is his social mentor and buddy. Adam is wonderfully played by Hugh Dancy (possibly Academy nomination material).

I loved this movie and so identified with Adam, especially when he wants to talk quantum and astrophysics with everyone he meets. Sometimes I've felt like Adam only without the Asperger's.

See this one...made me cry.