
Young Adam
"Everyone has a past. Everyone has a secret."
- NC-17
- 2003
- 1 hr 33 min
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6.4 (13,289)
Based on the novel of the same name, this drama tells the story of a young man called Joe who drifts between a career as a writer and working as a hired hand on a barge. The complicated story of Joe's life is told in a series of flashbacks as his present life working on a barge operating out of Glasgow becomes difficult as he embarks on a series of affairs with the barge owner and her family. Joe's past is revealed after the body of a woman he once knew is pulled from the river.