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Adam

Antthony Dod Mantle at the cinema

Guests arriving for the closing film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Eric Milligan and Janice arriving for the closing film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Councillor Steve Cardownie arriving for the closing film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Kate Dickie arriving for the closing film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Claire Danes at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Max Mayer director of the film Adam at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Hugh Dancy (actor) and Max Mayer (director) at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Hugh Dancy (actor) at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Max Mayer (director) being interviewed at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Hugh Dancy (actor) being interviewed at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Sir Sean Connery and his wife at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Hugh Dancy (actor), Sir Sean Connery and his wife and Max Mayer (director)

Max Mayer (director) signing autoghraphs on the red carpet

Drummer playing in the guests and stars at the Edinburgh International Film Festival

Written and directed by noted New York theatre director and playwright Max Mayer, our Closing Night film puts a thought provoking new spin on the conventional romcom set-up. Outgoing, attractive writer Beth (Rose Byrne) is very keen to know her new neighbours � particularly handsome Adam (Hugh Dancy). But as she attempts to forge a connection, Adam's behaviour begins to puzzle her - why doesn�t he respond to hints or signals, the crucial currency of flirtation? Mayer's delicate script allows the fact of Adam's Asperger's Syndrome to evolve not as a tragic blight on the developing romance, but as a challenge to all Beth's assumptions about what it means to be normal, and what language and gesture can indicate to different individuals. (Adam reads everything literally, as Beth realises when she tries to explain that her ex lover "was seeing other women while we were together..."). Tender but never sentimental, and blessed with an irreverent and subtle sense of humour, Adam also provides its two up-and-coming stars with nuanced and intelligent character roles that bring out their very best work.

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