High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Adam is an American comedy-drama film written and directed by Max Mayer, starring Hugh Dancy and Rose Byrne. The film follows the relationship between a young man named Adam (Dancy) with Asperger syndrome and the woman of his dreams, Beth (Byrne). Mayer was inspired to write the film`s script when he heard a radio interview with a man who had Asperger`s.