About Adam Reviews
Charming, explicit love story for mature teens.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 2, 2010
| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 19, 2002
Townsend ... makes quite an impression in the title role.
Full Review | Jun 8, 2001
Stembridge makes the twists as pleasantly surprising as the dawning realization that you've gone from judge to accomplice.
| May 21, 2001
Stembridge keeps things bustling along at a lively enough pace to deflect any introspective focus on the matchups that are never presented as relationships, only flings.
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 21, 2001
A glowing Hudson radiates high spirits, and Mr. Townsend ... makes his chameleon character seem credible.
Full Review | May 17, 2001
For his part Townsend does Adam with a lightness of touch that fits in with the film's cheery view of his unscrupulousness.
Full Review | May 17, 2001
If anybody still thinks Kate Hudson is getting too much mileage out of being Goldie Hawn's daughter, they'll be pleasantly surprised by the range she shows in About Adam.
| May 17, 2001
A sly romantic comedy made with wit and style.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 11, 2001
Smart, sexy and uncompromised.
| May 10, 2001
A moderately beguiling date movie.
Full Review | May 10, 2001
Calculated, cold, and damply demeaning.
| Original Score: C- | May 10, 2001
About Adam rests almost entirely on the shoulders of Stuart Townsend, who brings to the movie's duplicitous title character a winningly light touch.
Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 9, 2001
Squanders its potential themes.
| May 8, 2001
There's more than enough freshness of place and keenness of observation to justify this movie's existence.
Full Review | May 3, 2001
Stembridge capably balances the potentially unstable narrative, and the performances are fully rounded.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2001
The film ends up never quite explaining what makes Adam tick.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 30, 2001
Stembridge keeps the amoral laughs bubbling.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 22, 2001