Adam

Lakeshore Records presents the soundtrack to Sundance film, Adam, featuring score by Jay Wadley (“Tales of the City (2019)”, “The OA”). The film comes from the producers of Brokeback Mountain and is directed Rhys Ernst, in his feature-length directorial debut.

Lakeshore Records presents the soundtrack to Sundance film, Adam, featuring score by Jay Wadley (“Tales of the City (2019)”, “The OA”). The film comes from the producers of Brokeback Mountain and is directed Rhys Ernst, in his feature-length directorial debut.

The album contains the film’s original music composed by Jay Wadley. The soundtrack is available on Amazon.

A fresh electronic beat that sounds as though the Stranger Things theme time traveled to 2006.
- Hannah Jackson, Flaunt -

Adam is directed by Rhys Ernst with Nicholas Alexander, Bobbi Salvör Menuez, Leo Sheng, Chloe Levine and Margaret Qualley.
Adam film won the Grand Jury Prize for Outstanding Directing for a U.S. Dramatic Feature at L.A. Outfest and received a nomination for the NEXT Innovators Award at Sundance Film Festival.

Awkward, self-conscious Adam Freeman (Nicholas Alexander) has just finished his junior year of high school in 2006. When his cool older sister Casey (Margaret Qualley, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood) suggests he visit her in New York for the summer, Adam has visions of meeting a girl and finally gaining some actual life experience.
The fantasy doesn’t materialize exactly as expected. Casey has enthusiastically embraced life amidst Brooklyn’s young LGBTQ community and invites Adam to tag along with her to queer bars, marriage equality rallies and other happenings.
When Adam falls at first sight for Gillian (Bobbi Salvör Menuez), a smart, beautiful young woman in this new crowd, she mistakenly assumes he is trans. Flummoxed and enamored, he haplessly goes along with her assumption, resulting in an increasingly complex comedy – and tragedy – of errors he’s ill-equipped to navigate…..

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About Adam:
Awkward, self-conscious Adam Freeman (Nicholas Alexander) has just finished his junior year of high school in 2006. When his cool older sister Casey (Margaret Qualley, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood) suggests he visit her in New York for the summer, Adam has visions of meeting a girl and finally gaining some actual life experience.

The fantasy doesn’t materialize exactly as expected. Casey has enthusiastically embraced life amidst Brooklyn’s young LGBTQ community and invites Adam to tag along with her to queer bars, marriage equality rallies and other happenings. When Adam falls at first sight for Gillian (Bobbi Salvör Menuez), a smart, beautiful young woman in this new crowd, she mistakenly assumes he is trans. Flummoxed and enamored, he haplessly goes along with her assumption, resulting in an increasingly complex comedy – and tragedy – of errors he’s ill-equipped to navigate.

About Jay Wadley:
The composer and music producer is currently working on the original score for Charlie Kaufman’s upcoming film, I’m Thinking of Ending Things. His score for James Schamus' critically acclaimed directorial debut, Indignation (Lionsgate), was featured in IndieWire's '10 Best Scores of 2016,' received a Billboard premiere and a concert performance by the Winnipeg Symphony for Soundtracks Live. Recent projects include Tales of the City (Netflix/Universal), Emmy-nominated Raised in the System HBO/VICE Season 6 Premiere, Rhys Ernst's (Transparent) directorial debut ADAM, Andrew Ahn’s (Spa Night) Driveways, The OA (Netflix/Plan-B), Anu Valia's Sundance-winning short Lucia, Before & After and Jacob LaMendola's Emmy-nominated Long Shot (Netflix). His films have played at Sundance, Telluride, SXSW, Berlin, Rotterdam, Tribeca, BFI London, LA Film Festival, Montreal film festivals and others.

Other upcoming projects include an Untitled Documentary Series from Oscar-winning Documentary director Roger Ross Williams (Life Animated), and the narrative debut feature from Oscar-nominated director Heidi Ewing (Jesus Camp).

A graduate of the Yale School of Music (MM, AD) and Oklahoma City University School of Music (BM), Jay has won two Charles Ives awards from the Academy of Arts and Letters as well as an ASCAP/SCI Student Composer Award for his concert music. He's been commissioned by Carnegie Hall's Ensemble ACJW, the Yale Band, Williams College and The Nouveau Classical Project and invited as a guest lecturer on composition at Yale, The Peabody Institute, NYU, OCU and Kennesaw State University. His arrangements and orchestrations for Rufus Wainwright, Mark Ronson and Calexico have been performed by The San Francisco Symphony, New York City Opera, The Royal Ballet and the Louisville Symphony Orchestra, among others.