Adam (2009) on Netflix
Adam Raki, a twenty-nine-year-old New Yorker with Asperger syndrome, lives alone after his father's death and has just lost his job at a toy company. Beth Buchwald moves in above him.
- Netflix3.4/5
- IMDb7.1/1036,946 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes66%
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Plot summary
Adam Raki is twenty-nine and lives alone in Manhattan, where his father, who died six weeks ago, used to look after him. He has Asperger syndrome, talks at length about electronics and astronomy, and has lost the job he held at a toy company. Harlan, a friend of his father's from the army, is the person he can still call. Beth Buchwald, an elementary school teacher who wants to write children's books, moves into the apartment above his, just out of a destructive relationship. Adam hopes for a relationship with her, though his routines and his difficulty reading other people get in the way. The mortgage on his apartment is unpaid, and the lawyer handling his father's estate has suggested he move.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Adam (2009)
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- Max Mayer got the idea for Adam from a man with Asperger syndrome he heard interviewed on National Public Radio about how he viewed the world. He drew the character of Adam from that man and from his own research, and based Beth on several people he knew.
