Young Adam Summary
MPAA Rating: NC17
Director: David Mackenzie
Genres: Drama
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An amoral young man wends his way into the lives of a handful of damaged souls in this adaptation of British Beat Generation writer Alexander_Trocchi's first novel. Written for the screen and directed by David_Mackenzie, Young Adam begins with the discovery of a barely dressed woman's corpse by two barge workers, Joe (Ewan McGregor) and Leslie (Peter_Mullan). A taciturn drifter, Joe hoists the body ashore with little distress, and the ensuing police investigation does little to ruffle his day-to-day existence on the barge. But his behavior becomes more and more erratic, and as he begins a torrid affair with Leslie's downtrodden wife Ella (Tilda_Swinton), flashbacks reveal a similarly cruel encounter he once had with a young woman named Cathie (Emily_Mortimer). Young Adam premiered at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival before securing berths at the Toronto and New York Film Festivals later that year. Michael Hastings, Rovi
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