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Plot:
Few movies are as vividly tactile as Young Adam. The way the cold blue light of Scotland envelopes everything--wooden bannisters, rippling water, rough fabric, coal soot caked in human skin, an...( read more 
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MCT:August 28, 2008
It's a movie drama with a surface so bleak and an interior so hot with eroticism that it twists your guts to watch it.
Young Adam" is a study in contrasts. It's a movie full of explicit sex scenes and almost no passion, and it's a beautiful-looking film with a very ugly soul at its center. -
MCT:August 14, 2008Apparently you can only see 'Little Ewan' in the British version :-)
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MCT:August 8, 2008
All right interesting Scottish thriller movie with Evan McGregor. It reminds of Stanley Kubrick?s Eyes Wide Shut (EWS) with Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, but Young Adam is more a criminal thriller than EWS.
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MCT:July 13, 2008This looks like one of those indie or indie-like movies that Ewan McGregor does every few years so he can get naked for us all
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MCT:July 9, 2008i rate young adam to be one of the best ewan mcgregor films ever .ewan is so amazing in it scary and incredabuly attractive and sexyest man . and these woman are great in the film too.
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MCT:May 31, 2008I can never put my finger on what the point of this movie is... it's shockingly entertaining though.
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MCT:January 9, 2008
Some would say it's a sex drama, but I don't see Young Adam that way. I think it's a psychologic one. Young Adam has, indeed, a lot of sex bringing absolutely nothing to the plot, cause there is too many of them. In fact, I truly think the writer/director put these scenes to fill some holes in the story, maybe to captivate the viewer.
Good sides now. Ewan McGregor's character, Joe Taylor is absolutely fantastic. I mean, the choice he made during the film and the way he deals with the secret he is trying to hide is very interesting.
Besides some doubtful directing choices, Young Adam has some cool shots, and the most important of all - I think -, it is extremely well acted. McGregor, Swinton and Mortimer are perfect in their roles. -
MCT:January 5, 2008
its a little slow but ewan makes it worth it... and ladies.. God didn't just bless this scotsman with just good looks and sexy voice ;)
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MCT:December 18, 2007Talk about slow. So, so slow. Not that, that made it a boring movie but towards the end of it I felt like it would never be over and that I'd not been watching it for just under 2 hours but that I'd been watching it for weeks. That and none of the characters stood out for me except Ewen McGregor's performance but mainly because as the movie went on I came to despise his character more and more. Other then that I didn't feel it was a strong peformace at all. It did have me intrigued enough to watch it to the end but my life would've been about the same if I hadn't of watched it.
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MCT:December 15, 2007
Depressing sex drama. Ewan McGregor is so fine, but story you want it to follow is kept to the sidelines and instead we see Joe (McGregor) bone a lot of different women. Oh well, if it was any other actor it would't be worth watching but...
It's realistic in the sense that the dialogue and acting is believable and the story of the discovered corpse in the canal is very intriguing. The revelation of Joe's connection with the body is revealed in short glimpses, however, and the rest is filler in the form of explicit sex. Who's complaining? -
MCT:October 12, 2007Can anyone tell me wtf is the point of this shity pornographic movie???? Does tilda reaally look that nasty?
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MCT:September 1, 2007I am not surprised that this film has not become a darling of the viewing audiences of this time. It offers hard views, views of this time indeed, seen through the darkness of recent history. The source novel is set in post-WWII Scotland. Joe, the anti-hero, is a young man of his time. He is motivated by personal freedom, as he perceives it, at any cost. He has sex whenever it is easily available; he moves on when it isn't. He would rather witness the death of others than face his own responsibility to them. He is a coward, who drifts like a barge from transaction to transaction. He only feels safe when he is moving. The film is all mood. There is no cluttering dialogue. It is visual, the perfect medium for its message to a visual age. The performances are evenly powerful. McGregor continues to stretch his range. Swinton is immersed in her character. Mullan's Les is complex and believable. McKenzie's direction is masterful. It creates a whole universe and pulls the viewer in. If you are tired of reality TV and explosions, go see this film.
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MCT:August 15, 2007drama set in glasgow scotland, ewan mcgregor plays joe a drifter, who works the canals, on a badge which is owned by les and his wife ella, peter mullan and tolda swinton, unknown to les, his wife and joe are having a affair, sometimes down below when hes driving, while travelling to edinburgh they discover a body floating, they report it to the police, we are told through flashbacks that the woman played by emily mortimor is indeed linked to joe, who were in a relationship, and was there reasons to her turning up dead by him, whilst in the present the triangle trelationship grows more intence, eeryones grest here, mcgregor as always on top form, and using his scott acent for a change, mullen and swinton are great also, the film looks great as well, with really grainy 5os set glasgow really showing, and a great outcome, as to why mcgregors charactor acts the way he does, check it out.
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MCT:July 27, 2007this movie taught me a lesson..not to buy movies before you watch them. it was a really horrible movie, the plot was so horrible..more or less just ewan f**** alot of women. Dont watch it, unless you enjoy pornos
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MCT:July 23, 2007
What happened to his confession note? And don't get the random boffing of hideous sister but still want to BE Ewan McGregor.
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MCT:June 30, 2007
wanna see ewan in the movie... can't wait to watch it.... and it's re-written from a fiction of Alexander Trocchi.
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MCT:June 25, 2007
I found this film to be tedious and uninspiring, this is probably what the director was trying to portray Adam's life as being but it doen't make for good viewing.
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MCT:June 19, 2007
Well, I liked the photography in this movie and Tilda Swinton's acting, but everything else is nothing special. Slow movie, but it isn't for not noticing. If you like to watch english mistery like movies then take a look...
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MCT:June 18, 2007
An erotic film done right. Love. Lust. Death. Bad combination, but makes a great film this time around.
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MCT:May 29, 2007
this movie was pretty darn boring. and i even like slow movies.plus i cant figure out where the title came from, which bugs me
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MCT:May 13, 2007
The performances of Ewan McGregor is excellent in this hot drama film as an emotionally unrealised drifter fleeing a black secret down the chilly canals of 1950s Scotland only to have his past haunt and torment him. Emily Mortimer is more hotter as Ewan's first lover in the flashback than Tilda Swinton.
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