Young Adam

2003

Action / Crime / Drama

17
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 49% · 123 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 49% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 15220 15.2K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

David Mackenzie Photo
David Mackenzie

Top cast

Andrew Neil Photo
Andrew Neil as Barman
Ewan McGregor Photo
Ewan McGregor as Joe Taylor
John Kazek Photo
John Kazek as Black Steet Pub Man
Ewan Stewart Photo
Ewan Stewart as Daniel Gordon
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897.79 MB
1280*542
English 2.0
NR
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24 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 1
1.8 GB
1920*812
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
24 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by gazineo-1 7 / 10

A slow movie with a gripping theme

"Young Adam' is one of these movies that has a simple and thin story line to tell us but made the experience extremely rewarding. The principal character here is a young, detached and gloomy man (portrayed with a convincing low tone by Ewan McGregor) who lives an uncertain life. He gets a job in a barge conducted by Les (Mullan) and becomes involved with his wife Ella (Swinton) in a relationship marked by crude lust and an oppressive despair. The relationship between Joe and Ella is just the right background for director David McKenzie gives the message of the movie. A message that told us, in a gripping and moving way, that people are living lives without sense and dignity and that the modern world is a place where communication is almost impossible between human beings. 'Young Adam' is a movie about loneliness and because of that is a movie sparkled with a moody and unrelenting tone.
Reviewed by Chris_Docker 8 / 10

A jewel at the coal face

Dark, bleak and brooding, Young Adam is a film charged with unexploded tension throughout. Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton are superb in the lead roles, conveying much in unspoken guilt as barge hand McGregor engages in an ill-advised affair with his boss's wife. The body of a dead woman appearing in the Clyde leads to a trail of unravelling that leaves a queasy feeling in the stomach right to the very end of the film (and only then do we realise the significance of the title).Set in 1950s Glasgow this sombre recreation is a testament to Scottish art house film making (even if they did have to go abroad for much of the funding). The raw sexuality in the grittiest of surroundings is transformed by aesthetic cinematography into explosive beauty as we explore the innermost drives of the characters and work through their dilemmas with them.
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