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Young Adam
One afternoon they discover the corpse of a young woman floating in the water and shiftless young drifter Joe Taylor was the last one to see her alive. Was her death an accident? Suicide? Or was it murder? Only Joe knows for certain.
19 March 1963
18 September 1946, England, UK
1994, UK
1953, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
8 July 1965, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
8 October 1957, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
24 April 1969, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
5 November 1960, London, England, UK
1958, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
May 05, 2009
nudity is perhaps the only intriguing element in this ponderous and torpid story about Joe (McGregor), a young drifter who takes work on a barge operated by a husband and wife (Peter Mullan and Tilda Swinton) after the mysterious death of his ex-girlfrienSeptember 16, 2004
I was much impressed with this superbly performed and tightly scripted noirish period drama.May 28, 2004
Mackenzie shoots the ensuing tryst with more fidelity than it deserves or needs.July 30, 2004
The story's drab, attention-span-testing pace makes it tough to keep wondering what dark secrets shuffle beneath the surface.March 27, 2014
Watching this film, one gets the sense of a once-arresting book that couldn't get arrested today.September 08, 2004
Where it's disturbing is in McGregor's challenging, defiant performance...May 28, 2004
Young Adam haunts like a loyalty betrayed or a secret never revealed.January 29, 2005
... a sepia-toned dirge of a film, pointedly sluggish and crabbedMay 21, 2004
Grimly arresting.May 28, 2004
The narrative, with its provocative flashbacks, is just interesting enough to propel the movie forward.June 10, 2004
Whether you're talking about Young Adam the movie or young Adam the character, neither is very likable.May 28, 2004
A movie that seems to think it's more interesting than it really is.