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  • 2004
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  • Sony Pictures Classics
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  • 2004
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 38 m

Summary Based on Scottish beat writer Alexander Trocchi's novel and inspired by the great Hollywood film noirs of the 40s and 50s, Young Adam is a highly original thriller set on the canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh. (HanWay Films)

Directed By: David Mackenzie

Written By: Alexander Trocchi, David Mackenzie

  • 2004
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 38 m
  • 2004
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 38 m

Young Adam

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
67
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
6.4
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Summary Based on Scottish beat writer Alexander Trocchi's novel and inspired by the great Hollywood film noirs of the 40s and 50s, Young Adam is a highly original thriller set on the canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh. (HanWay Films)

Directed By: David Mackenzie

Written By: Alexander Trocchi, David Mackenzie

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
67
75% Positive
24 Reviews
25% Mixed
8 Reviews
0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
67
75% Positive
24 Reviews
25% Mixed
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0% Negative
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91
The clammy power of Young Adam lies as much in the frank, emotional nakedness the actors bring to their roles under Mackenzie's care as in the baroque hopelessness of the plot.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
80
Those seeking a spiritual counterpart to the yin of Lynne Ramsay's masterfully moody "Morvern Callar" will find their yang in David Mackenzie's exquisitely sorrowful Young Adam.
By Gregory Weinkauf FULL REVIEW
75
Also quite fine is the film's musical score from David Byrne, as unsettling and edgy as the story.
By Carrie Rickey FULL REVIEW
75
Darkly effective, and its grip lasts longer than we might be entirely comfortable with.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW
63
All the actors give performances so low-key they're almost minimalist. That works, except when we're supposed to believe every woman would throw herself at the closed-off Joe.
By Lawrence Toppman FULL REVIEW
50
In the Scotland of Young Adam, love is getting dragged through the mud.
By Rick Groen FULL REVIEW
40
Suffers from a lifelessness that seems built into the terse, slightly detached style of the director, David Mackenzie, who also did the adaptation.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
6.4
33% Positive
4 Ratings
58% Mixed
7 Ratings
8% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
6.4
33% Positive
4 Ratings
58% Mixed
7 Ratings
8% Negative
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Production Company Young Adam Productions, StudioCanal, Recorded Picture Company (RPC), HanWay Films, UK Film Council, Scottish Screen, Sveno Media, National Lottery, Film Council Premiere Fund, Sigma Films
Release Date Apr 16, 2004
Duration 1 h 38 m
Rating R
Genres
Website http://www.sonyclassics.com/youngadam/
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Awards

London Critics Circle Film Awards
• 1 Win & 7 Nominations
BAFTA Awards, Scotland
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
British Independent Film Awards
• 4 Nominations

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