Max Mayer's romantic drama "Adam," starring Hugh Dancy as an engineer with Asperger's syndrome and Rose Byrne as the teacher who starts to fall for him, has received the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

The award - which comes with a $20,000 cash prize, sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - goes to a movie that depicts issues of science or technology, or has a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character.

The selection jury chose the movie “for its credible and moving portrayal of an engineer with Asperger's Syndrome whose passion for science helps him in his struggle to achieve a meaningful relationship.”