{"id":2299,"date":"2009-05-01T13:21:53","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T18:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2009-05-01T13:21:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T18:21:53","slug":"on-adam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2299","title":{"rendered":"On Adam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes at work I have to scour movie trailer websites, to try and figure out what&#8217;s new and interesting coming out, so I can write a &#8220;link article&#8221; for work.<\/p>\n<p>So, while digging through Yahoo! Movies, I came across this:<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/movie\/1810062504\/video\/13179944'><i>Adam<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Unfortunately, that version isn&#8217;t embeddable.  You&#8217;ll have to clink the link.  Or you can scroll down, and I have an embed from TrailerAddict.)<\/p>\n<p>Not a film I&#8217;ve heard of.  But here&#8217;s the short story:<\/p>\n<p>Hugh Dancy plays Adam, a man with Asperger&#8217;s Syndrome who meets Beth, a writer portrayed by Rose Byrne.  And they fall in love, which is not without its challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Dancy was, I think, Galahad in the Clive Owen <i>King Arthur<\/i> movie.  Byrne currently stars in <i>Damages<\/i>, and she&#8217;s my first choice to play a young Sarah Jane Smith if <i>Doctor Who<\/i> ever needed a young Sarah Jane.<\/p>\n<p>The film debuted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/festival.sundance.org\/2009\/film_events\/films\/adam\">2009 Sundance Film Festival<\/a>, and it goes into release in late July.<\/p>\n<p>This sounds like the kind of quirky, charming romantic comedy I would like.  The trailer is captivating enough. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><b>ETA (05-02-09):<\/b>  Let&#8217;s see if this works; I think I&#8217;ve found an embeddable version of the trailer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"237\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.traileraddict.com\/emd\/10568\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.traileraddict.com\/emd\/10568\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" width=\"450\" height=\"237\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, this film looks fun.  It looks like the kind of thing I&#8217;d like. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes at work I have to scour movie trailer websites, to try and figure out what&#8217;s new and interesting coming out, so I can write a &#8220;link article&#8221; for work. So, while digging through Yahoo! Movies, I came across this: Adam. (Unfortunately, that version isn&#8217;t embeddable. You&#8217;ll have to clink the link. Or you can<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2299\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Adam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}