You won't be disappointed!

the audience applauded

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I think mar3429's comments hit it right on the nail for me (http://www.imdb.com/user/ur5155618/comments). I suppose a lot of women here did not find this insulting, but I sure did! Sex from a womanizer solves all your problems? On top of all the cheating, sisters actually willing to cheat with another sister's fiancé? I can't imagine ever sharing a man with my sister (which I consider as morally bad as incest, a sentiment that few may share but has been expressed in, say, Hamlet), and I certainly would not feel better after I did! I only finished the movie because I thought Adam and/or the sisters might learn a lesson. Or anyone learning a lesson that's not "sleep with Adam and you will be better off." No such luck.It's not that I think disgusting topics should never be filmed, but I can't believe it was made into a romantic comedy. What's romantic or funny about this? To put my opinion in perspective, however, I also think that movies in which people about to get married but instead meet some other person who is the man/woman of their dreams (e.g. Forces of Nature, Serendipity, etc.) is not romantic--that's called cold feet and unwillingness to commit! If you think you might feel the same way I do, please avoid this movie so as not to feel tortured.

(All) About Adam has the makings of good dark comedy, but for some reason that is not the tone that the movie maker chose to use. Instead, an attempt was made to make a light comedy about a man who does some really ugly things. This supposed romantic comedy veers wildly into Jerry Springer territory, while seeming to assert that bad things that result in good outcomes for you are okay. Indeed, this film is wholly dependent on good outcomes for its characters. Even one bad outcome in this film would result in totally exposing how big a cad and creep Adam really is. It would also show how unsound the film's premise is.Wild child Lucy cuts a swath through the available men that she encounters, through a series of one night stands and short-term relationships. She's a heart-breaker who engages and drops men at will, uncaring of the damage and pain that she causes. This continues until she encounters the too-good-to-be-true Adam. She is immediately smitten. Is this a movie about Lucy receiving her comeuppance for her past behaviors? No, Lucy spends the movie blissfully unaware of all of the perfidy swirling about her. And, oddly enough, in a comedy based on amorality Lucy is the only individual who seems to have a conscience. In truth, Lucy ends up being the victim.Adam you see, is a manipulative seducer who works his way through her family,working his will on her sisters, her brother, and the brother's virginal girlfriend. Only the mother is spared, and he will probably get to her later. Why does Adam do this? We are never given an opportunity to really know Adam's motives and motivations. Instead, he serves as a cipher for others. We only get to see how others react to Adam in a Roshomon style retelling of his tale from the viewpoints of the various characters. Adam himself only offers that he has a "gift for helping others." And help them, he does. Sister Laura learns to be less repressed and to live her life experientially rather than intellectually, David is able to connect sexually with the girl of his dreams and to move their relationship on to another level and elder sister Alice re-learns sensuality and affection after a tryst with Adam a few hours before his scheduled wedding. The problem for the movie is that all of Adam's help is of a sexual nature. There are no kind words, no hand holding, and no words of wisdom--just sex. His stated desire to help is more self-serving alibi and justification than anything else.In the film Adam is extremely charming. He spins tale after tale (lies) that put him in the best light. Improbably, people (except for Alice) eat it up. Perhaps this is his true gift. Ulltimately, this film only works as a light comedy if you can like and identify with Adam and I couldn't. He presents to me as a smooth-talker who cares little about the consequences of his actions. In the real world families are destroyed,people get divorced and are killed for activities such as these. These thoughts might not have been so prominent in my mind if the filmmaker had not made the unfortunate choice of tacking a sentimental, traditional,romantic comedy staple to the end of the film-the interrupted wedding. It does not fit into the rest of the film. The words spoken ring hollow and lack sincerity given the things that came before it. Adam is uninterested in Lucy's secrets only because his are far more egregious. It is not a discussion about the boundaries and limits of love.The final scene only makes it worse. The sense is that there will only be more of the same and no larger lessons were learned. Somewhere over the horizon the till now avoided disaster awaits them and when it strikes the last seen smile and smirk on Adams face is sure to be wiped away.Finally, if I were a woman, I would find this film offensive. The assertion that all of a female's emotional problems, personal insecurities and dissatisfactions can be solved with a few well-placed lies and a few nights of good sex has an undertone of misogyny. Have doubts about those undertones? Make the Adam character a female instead and have her tearing through a group of brothers and see what images it conjures up for you. Neither a sex comedy nor a romantic comedy, this hybrid floats like a leaden balloon if you look at it too carefully. A charming creep is still a creep. When I look at Adam, that is what I see.

It's amazing what little gems turn up on late night television. I was about to go to bed when this came on: I got to bed two hours later and spent the next hour laughing.This film is a beautiful light comedy with an unlikely story line, but an ingenious script. It is set in the posh end of Dublin and proves (yet again, if it should be necessary) that Ireland is a lot more than civil war, Catholic repression and dire poverty.It is like one of those glossy romantic comedies of the 1960's in a modern setting. What amazed me was that two of the actresses who played the sisters, seriously pretty Kate Hudson and dark quiet Frances O'Connor, are not Irish at all. Congratulations to dialogue coach, Gerry Grennell - that's not the same Gerry Grennell that plays classical guitar, is it? Two other performances stand out: stylish Charlotte Bradley (a Dub, but not from the posh end) and the evergreen Ros Linehan. Not forgetting the eponymous Adam, Stuart Townsend - what a dream role that was! Anyone who complains about lack of in depth characterisation has probably been watching too much Ingmar Bergman and lost the ability to enjoy a first class light comedy. Real life credibility is not what comedies are about - you just go with the flow and enjoy, despite what appears to have been a family trait of making love almost fully clothed.

About Adam is the most intelligent movie I have ever seen. I didn't really know much about the movie before seeing it but after watching it I couldn't help but be mad at myself for routing for Adam. Adam (Stuart Townsend) really wants to please everyone. So when he meets Lucy (Kate Hudson) he is introduced to her family including her two sisters. Bookworm Laura (Frances O'Connor) and unhappily married Alice (Charlotte Bradley). Soon Adam is Pleasing all the sisters and in a moment becomes engaged to love blinded Lucy. With the nuptials getting closer the sisters begin to grow and become more involved with each other's lives and Adam who loves them in his own way.