Young Adam

In Glasgow, Scotland a young adult drifter, Joe Taylor (Ewan McGregor), finds work on the barge owned by Ella Gault (Tilda Swinton). Her husband Les Gault (Peter Mullan), is older, a drunkard, but the father of their son, Jimmy Gault... Full review

I kept waiting to find out the point of the movie, only to find out there was none. In general, it was basically a movie about a coward who failed to save his greatest love from dying and then chose to... Full review

it is the best film i ever seen. shows the emptiness all of us feel. although joe is not a good person, nobody is perfect.... Full review

Ewan McGregor is by far my most favorite actor. I've seen all of his movies and he never ceases to amaze me. He's so wonderfuly talanted and it truly shows in this film. It was very grim, yes,sometimes unbareable. But I... Full review

This movie reminded me of the Montgomery Cliff/Shelly Winter's movie where she got pregnant, but because of an accident(?) she drowned--althought that movie did not the torid sex scenes. And Emily Mortimer is a babe!... Full review

There is no redeeming quality to this so called film. it is not entertaining, there is no reason to care about the story and the sloppy, self-absorbed direction is so careless that we never really know what's going on until it's... Full review

Demi Moore's acting shines again for me. As the broken mother, I could feel her anguish. I did expect a little more for the plot... when her friend showed up at the light house... I knew then that it had to... Full review

and without any redeeming qualities except it shows how shallow and unhappy people can be when they have no dreams and drift around. Tilda Swinton and Ewan McGregor give good performances and be aware one sees McGregor in "full frontal" so... Full review

this is a movie which is not to be seen by anyone unless you want to torture yourself from watching porn movies... it has a bad story line which is like a teenagers fantasy about having sex anywhere he goes... this... Full review

Pretty much a total waste of time. Unable to indetify with any of the characters. Doesn't paint a very pretty picture of humanity.... Full review

Some may ultimately find the film depressing or even hollow....its unswerving honesty brilliantly captures Trocchi's uncompromising artistic truth.....The film is bleak and atmospheric.... ... Full Review

the film rewards adventurous viewers.....This is terribly hard for actors....Writer and director David Mackenzie, in his second feature, makes his characters credible....It's a film of minutely observed behaviour, driven by sensitive acting.....McGregor has probably never done better work..... ... Full Review

Young Adam opens promisingly with intrigue, but does not build cinematically in solving the death of the mystery girl. The most interesting of these is the Original Passage Narration that was cut from the final version of the film. ... Full Review

Young Adam is about conflicts and collisions, connections that occur between opposites, abruptly, subtly, and catastrophically. Its worth noting here that Young Adam arrives on DVD rated R, cut from its NC-17 theatrical release, with the originals offending scenethe one where Joe performs this oral sex on Ellanow relegated to an extended scene. ... Full Review

Swinton's insight feels exactly right.....Even here, a scene so raucous and oddly voluptuous, Joe's alarming disinterest, in the act or in Cathie, suggests.... ... Full Review

The second major project to be handled by Zentropa's sales arm is The Last Word , the new collaboration between star actor McGregor and Mackenzie following the award-winning Young Adam (2004). ... Full Article

In David Mackenzie's adaptation of the 1950s cult novel by Alexander Trocchi, there are three separate worlds or fields of action, nestled inside each other like Russian dolls. ... Full Article

Ewan McGregor... Totally Naked. Nude. Full frontal. Loooong shot.... of Ewan McGregor no less. Did I mention he gets naked yet? I kid you not. ... Full Article

A body floats in dark water.Standing on a pier near the coal barge on which he works, Joe (Ewan McGregor) spots the corpse, lap-lapping on the gentle current. ... Full Article

Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring is the first Kim Ki-duk film to get a proper U.S. release after the transgressive director's controversial Seom . The gorgeous setting is more or less the same, as is the tireless mode of transport, except... ... Full Article

Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton in 'Young Adam.'(Sony Pictures Classics) By Joe Williams Post-Dispatch Film Critic 05/14/2004 It's hard to think of Ewan McGregor as a villain. ... Full Article