Young Adam details
| Format: | 18 DVD |
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| Starring: | Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Rory McCann, Peter Mullan, Emily Mortimer |
| Director: | David Mackenzie |
| Genre: | Drama - General |
| Studio: | WARNER HOME VIDEO |
| Name | Discs | |
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Young Adam |
18 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 38 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 26 Mar 2004 |
| Main languages: | English, English Audio Description |
| Hearing impaired subtitles: | English |
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British Cinema At It's Best
By Ned0 from W.Yorks , 08 Nov 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
It's very rare that I can enjoy a film adapted from a book if I have read the book first.
However, this adaption of Scottish beat writer Alexander Trocchi's debut novel from 1954 left me breathless. Ewan McGregor plays Joe, a drifter working on a barge between Glasgow and Edinburgh.
The film begins with the discovery of a young woman's body in the canal and leads into the sexual tensions growing between Joe and the couple he shares a barge with.
"Young Adam" is Britain's answer to "Requeim For A Dream" - haunting, bold and
unashamedly intelligent. The film makes as much use of body launguage as it does dialogue and the scenes between McGregor and Tilda Swinton are both sexy and intense.
People looking for mainstream entertainment should look elsewhere, but anyone else would do very well to see this excellent film.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(107)Dark portrayal of Glasgow with bizarre lifestyles of the residents
By uniqueness (77 reviews) from Glasgow , 27 Oct 2012This is quite a dark, and rather odd film. But before you decide not to watch, i'm going to recommend that you should watch this film.
Ewen McGregor plays a drifter trying to find work, who ends up working on a Glasgow barge. Set in the 1940's the darkness and glumness of Glasgow is excellenty portrayed.
There is not much of a plot, instead much of the film is made through characterisation and dialogue together with flashbacks to a critical incident that the charcters in the film are responding to.
Overall, it's a worthwhile flm because it's not your average type and i haven't seen any films like this before.
Theres a running theme of sex, intimacy, cheating, and many graphic sexual scenes, some quite bizarre.
This is the type of film that you'll either be glued to or switch off after half an hour. My response to that is, try to stick to it and i think at the end you'll probably have quite enjoyed it.
It doesn't try to be anything it's not. You are going to get what the movie gives out. A portrayal of struggle, dark times and people trying to deal with that the best way they can.
So in that respect it's quite an accurate description of what ife was like in mid second world war Glasgow.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Who was Adam?
By a customer , 18 Aug 2012A very bleak and depressing film but very well acted from all .The film is called young Adam but there was no such character in the film called Adam gave it 3 stars- Was this review helpful to you?
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Actually better than most people give it credit for-but bleak.
By Bobsview (554 reviews) from Gloucestershire , 29 Apr 2012This is a dark, depressing ,bleak story about people who scratch out a living working a barge in Scotland. They escape their dreary lives through frequent loveless sex. McGregor plays a commitment phobe character devoid of any morals who manages to wreck the lives of not one woman but two. Have I put you off? I hope not because it is a gritty haunting film that draws you in and does grow on you. I watched it twice! But be warned this film contains a lot of sex and nudity although it is not gratuitous. Definitely worth a watch.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Young Adam
By DD from London , 28 Apr 2012A great sense of film-making style and timing is let down by - and I never though I'd ever say this - too much sex. Its so frequent you begin to say 'not again' each time he does it. You can have too much of a good thing.- Was this review helpful to you?
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It would be great with sound!!!!!!!!!!
By a customer from Leicestershire , 13 Mar 2012This was a replacement film for one I had already returned as being faulty (no sound). This one also had no sound.
I checked the reviews, and no it was not billled as a silent film. I tried another title, and that worked OK, so it was not my machine at fault.
I hope it was a boring film, then I will not feel so bad at having missed out!- Was this review helpful to you?
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