YMMV / Adam (2019)

• Offending the Creator's Own: Director Rhys Ernst is himself transgender, but this didn't stop the film from being accused of transphobia due to its premise involving gender deception.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: The film attracted controversy as soon as its plot was announced - it's a romantic comedy about a cisgender boy who pretends to be a transgender boy in order to pursue a lesbian. Besides the obvious Audience-Alienating Premise (especially for the LGBT+ crowd), further controversy arose when the studio tried to highlight the large number of actual transgender performers in its cast, only for the performers themselves to report that they'd been hired under false pretenses and had no idea what kind of movie they were filming. There were also reports that the extras were constantly mistreated by the filming crew. However, the director Rhys Ernst himself is a trans man and defended the film. Much of this criticism derives from the original novel by Ariel Schrag, which is full of unfortunate implications.