Director & Writer David Mackenzie | Producer: Jeremy Thomas
Co-producer: Nick O’Hagan & Alexandra Stone
Associate producer: Gillian Berrie
Released : 2003
Young Adam
Produced by Recorded Picture Company, David Mackenzie’s second feature, YOUNG ADAM was developed and associate produced by Sigma Films. The film opened Edinburgh International Film Festival 2003 and has received high critical acclaim. It was released in the UK 26th September 2003, for further information please contact Hanway Films.
Set in a steamy Glasgow of the early 1950s, the film focuses on the existential crisis of Joe (Ewan McGregor), a rootless young drifter who finds work on a barge owned by the down-to-earth Les (Peter Mullan) and his enigmatic wife Ella (Tilda Swinton). One afternoon Joe and Les happen upon a corpse of a young woman floating in the water. Accident? Suicide? Murder?
As the police investigate the case and a suspect is arrested, it becomes evident that Joe knows more about the drowned woman than he is letting on. Meanwhile, against the background of this mysterious death and the ‘murder’ investigation, Joe and Ella embark on an intimate and passionate affair.
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