Young Adam (2003)

Directors

David Mackenzie

Cast

Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan, Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, Therese Bradley, Ewan Stewart, Stuart McQuarrie, Pauline Turner, Alan Cooke, Rory McCann, Ian Hanmore, Mhairi Steenbock, Anne Marie Timoney

The story

In 1954 Scotland, shiftless young drifter Joe Taylor works on a coal barge which operates from Glasgow, on the River Clyde, along the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals to Edinburgh. He shares the cramped on-board living quarters with its owners and operators, husband and wife Les and Ella Gault, and their young son Jim. One day, Joe and Les pull the body of a young woman, Cathy Dimly, naked except for a petticoat, from the water; they cover her and hand the body over to the authorities.

Genres

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