Young Adam (2003) ( Young Adam )

Young Adam (2003) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Young Adam
Screened, competed or awarded at:
British Independent Film Awards
European Film Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
94 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Behind the scenes
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2003 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
David Mackenzie

Written By:
Alexander Trocchi
David Mackenzie

Actors:
Ewan McGregor ..... Joe Taylor
Tilda Swinton ..... Ella Gault
Peter Mullan ..... Les Gault
Emily Mortimer ..... Cathie Dimly
Jack McElhone ..... Jim Gault
Therese Bradley ..... Gwen
Ewan Stewart ..... Daniel Gordon
Stuart McQuarrie ..... Bill
Pauline Turner ..... Connie
Alan Cooke ..... Bob M'bussi
Rory McCann ..... Sam
Ian Hanmore ..... Freight Supervisor
Andrew Neil ..... Barman
Arnold Brown ..... Bowler Hat Man
Meg Fraser ..... Stall Woman

Synopsis:

Ewan MacGregor plays Joe, a moody, literary young man in postwar Glasgow who works on a barge and seduces women as much out of boredom as out of lust. One day Joe and his boss, whose unhappy wife (Tilda Swinton) Joe has been sleeping with, fish a dead body out of the water, an event which precipitates something of a crisis in Joe's slack, selfish life. In a discontinuous series of flashbacks, we revisit his relationship with Cathie (Emily Mortimer), from the first flirtation on the beach to a fateful encounter on the docks. Based on a novel by Alex Trocchi, the film is all mood and attitude, a dated exercise in existentialist angry-young-man noir. It follows its literary source in assuming, rather than showing, that Joe's narcissism and indifference to other people offer deep insights into the human condition.

In Glasgow in the early 1950s, Joe, a young drifter, is engaged to work on a barge travelling between Glasgow and Edinburgh. One afternoon they discover the corpse of a young woman floating in the water. It becomes apparent during the police investigation that Joe knew the dead woman well. Meanwhile he is irrestibly drawn to Ella, wife of the barge owner, Les.

A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 13 August, 2012.