About Adam (2000)

A waitress falls for a handsome customer who seduces her, her two sisters, her brother, and her brother's girlfriend.

Director:

Gerard Stembridge

Writers:

Gerard Stembridge, Tommy Tiernan (stand-up material written by)

Stars:

Stuart Townsend, Kate Hudson, Tommy Tiernan

3 nominations.

Cast

Complete credited cast:
Tommy Tiernan	...	Simon
Kate Hudson	...	Lucy Owens
Frances O'Connor	...	Laura Owens
Stewart Roche	...	Customer #1
Aoife Maloney	...	Customer #2
Donal Beecher	...	Andy
Stuart Townsend	...	Adam
Rosaleen Linehan	...	Peggy Owens
Charlotte Bradley	...	Alice Rooney
Alan Maher	...	David Owens
Brendan Dempsey	...	Martin Rooney
Cathleen Bradley	...	Karen
Kathy Downes	...	Dympna
Mark Smith	...	Dracula
Roger Gregg	...	Professor Harry McCormick

Storyline

A waitress meets personable, attractive Adam and they soon become lovers, then get engaged. Wasting no time, Adam starts an affair with her bookish sister, who knows about the first relationship. Their (none-too-happily) married third sister knows about both these liaisons but is still attracted to Adam. The lad is certainly playing the field, but in their own ways the girls seem to be getting just as much out of the deal as him.

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Plot Keywords:

alliteration in title | name in title | male name in title | bare chested male | sex on a roof | 

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Taglines:

He came. He saw. He conquered. One sister at a time.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language and sexuality

Details

Country:

Ireland UK USA

Language:

English French

Release Date:

19 January 2001 (Ireland)

Also Known As:

Todo sobre Adam

Filming Locations:

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Box Office

Opening Weekend USA:

$33,300, 13 May 2001

Gross USA:

$159,668

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$802,951

Company Credits

Production Co:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Bórd Scannán na hÉireann, Venus Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min 105 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

[Lucy is talking into a microphone onstage at the restaurant]
Lucy Owens: My family's here tonight sitting at that table over there. Were celebrating my mum's birthday today. We all love you, Peggy Owens! And, there's a man down there in my crowd called Adam and he's my fella. And I know my mum's mad about him. So I thought the best present I could give my mum would be to say that him and I are going to get married.
[Crowd starts cheering loudly]
Lucy Owens: Oh, wait! No, no, no! No, no! Wait, wait, wait! You see, I ...
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Connections

References Laura (1944)

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Soundtracks

Love Unlimited
Written by Brian Leiser and Huey Morgan (as Hugh Morgan)
Courtesy of BMG Music Publishing Limited
Performed by Fun Lovin' Criminals
(P) 1998 Licensed courtesy of EMI Records Limited

User Reviews

The Witches of Dun Laoghaire

In some ways this is an incredibly refreshing film. In it's acceptance that lust and promiscuity are normal facts of life and not something that lead to a lifetime of suffering and possibly eternal damnation, it's almost unique in Irish cinematic history. Seeing a film so free from the historical and religious baggage that shackles most Irish films can also be a bit disconcerting, like seeing one of the nuns that taught you in school wearing a mini-skirt and fishnet tights.

Set far from the traditional Irish mise-en-scene in Dublin's trendy Temple Bar area, it features Stuart Townsend as a benign Irish cousin to Jack Nicholson in _The Witches of Eastwick_, who plays on the desires of three beautiful sisters for his own ends. Far from being a scheming Casanova, he's a likeable character who does nothing more than tell a few tall tales to aid his seductive techniques, and who helps people come to terms with themselves rather than cosign them to a life of guilt by doing so.

This film is like Stembridges earlier film, Guiltrip, turned inside out. It's bright, urban-based, modern, and shows signs that Ireland is finally developing a mature attitude to Sexuality.