Young Adam (2003)
- • Role: Daniel Gordon, a plumber falsely accused of murdering a young woman
- • Co-stars: Ewan MacGregor, Tilda Swinton, Emily Mortimer
- • Director: David Mackenzie
- • Type: Movie
- • Rating: NC-17
- • Alternate Titles: n/a
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When Joe, a young drifter working on a coal barge, finds a young woman's half-nude corpse floating in a canal, it seems like mere coincidence... but, as the woman's death is investigated, it becomes clear that the drifter knows more than he's telling. As Joe obsessively occupies the present with affairs and sexual encounters, we learn in flashbacks about his connection to the dead woman.
Ewan has very few scenes in this (and the few he has are confined to a courtroom), but his brief moments onscreen are very effective. As the murder suspect on trial for his life, he conveys an innocent man's confusion and distress that is both pathetic and touching. His final few seconds onscreen are heartbreakingly excellent.
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- Chicago Sun-Times – Review by Roger Ebert | ***1/2
"A movie like "Young Adam" is above all about the ground-level lives of its characters. The death of the girl and the plot surrounding it are handled not as a crime or a mystery but as an event that jars characters out of their fixed orbits."
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Links
- • IMDb Page
- • RottenTomatoes.com Page – Freshness rating: 61%
- • Sony Pictures Classics: Young Adam – Official U.S. site (requires Flash).
- • The Scotsman: Sheriff's court date with Ewan McGregor – An article about a local sheriff who was cast as an extra in the film; he played one of the policeman guarding Ewan Stewart's character in the courtroom scenes.
