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About Adam

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Movie propaganda

In the 1950s classic All about Eve, Eve Harrington used stealthy deception to wreak havoc and work her way to the top. Jump fifty years into the future and Eve's biblical counterpart is embracing the same surreptitious ways but in Gerard Stembridge's scintillating comedy, About Adam, our naughty hero aims to spread romance, not ruin.

Lucy Owens (Kate Hudson) is entertaining memories of her ex-boyfriend in a restaurant when Adam (Stuart Townsend) strolls in to have a quiet dinner. Immediately smitten, Lucy can't help but ask the shy and unassuming gentleman on a date. Next thing you know, he's rolling up the family driveway in a baby blue Jaguar and whisking her off to the romance of her life. She decides this is the man she is going to marry and trots him in to meet the folks.

But if Adam is the apple of Lucy's eye, she doesn't realise that others are being tempted to nibble on the same fruit. From the moment she meets him, Lucy's bookworm sister, Laura (Frances O'Connor), keeps accidentally bumping into Adam in the most unlikely places. And when he offers to help little brother David (Alan Maher) charm the girl of his fancy, both fall under Adam's spell. Even Alice (Charlotte Bradley), the eldest and most sensible Owens sibling, succumbs to the charms of the man with the mysterious past.

Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Drama UK romance sex relationship pleasing mwstery remake

Persons of interest

Rosaleen Linehan .... Peggy
Tommy Tiernan .... Simon
Brendan Dempsey .... Martin
Cathleen Bradley .... Karen
Roger Gregg .... Professor McCormick
Gerard Stembridge .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

About Adam official movie site
Studios and distributors:

Miramax * Buena Vista International

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

Uh... cute guy spends life wandering about making people happy, declining to restrict himself to Victorian mores of prudery.

About Adam is a chick flick. Stuart Townsend is cute. Really cute (he's even cute as a vampire - see Queen of the damned). He drives the coolest car. He makes love to women who are beneath his level (cf. Shallow Hal), he is charming, he's rich, your mother loves him. He does romantic things. He reads poetry. He isn't gay.

What a catch.

The women are all women you know (or are) and the actors who play them are great. Happy, troubled, angry, sad. They even have such good accents that it's hard to pick the ones who learned it for the film from the ones who live it every day.

Sigh. About Adam is a romantic film with lots of laughs and some sobs, too. Everyone ends up with the one they love even if they aren't the one they think they love. If only life were this simple (or is it?).