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Article: 'ADAM' TRIES TO MAKE AMORALITY CUTE.(L.A. Life) (movie review)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- May 9, 2001
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Byline: Glenn Whipp Film Critic
``About Adam'' wants us to believe that its title character can lie and cheat and sleep with three sisters (while engaged to one) and still be a sweet-natured bloke who just wants to ``give people what they want.''
Yeah, right.
Even as romantic fantasies go, it's a hard idea to swallow. And ultimately, it keeps ``About Adam'' from fully succeeding in its attempt to put a wicked spin on a frothy genre. If writer-director Gerard Stembridge had been a little less concerned with making Adam so darned lovable and actually given the character some occasional shadings of darkness, the movie would be more palatable. As ...