**** "beautifully made?extremely engrossing" David Stratton, At the Movies

Madman Cinema releases YOUNG ADAM in select theatres nationally today.

Starring Ewan McGregor in what many critics are calling his best performance yet, as well as Tilda Swinton, Peter Mullan and Emily Mortimer, YOUNG ADAM is a hauntingly faithful adaptation of the novel of the same by the Scottish Beat writer Alexander Trocchi. One of the most original British films of recent years, it's a moody, sensual thriller that takes place on the canals between Glasgow and Edinburgh during the 1950s.

YOUNG ADAM centres around Joe (McGregor), a rootless young drifter who finds work on a barge owned by the down-to-earth Les (Mullan) and his enigmatic wife Ella (Swinton). One afternoon Joe and Les happen upon the corpse of a young woman floating in the water and suspicions are aroused. Accident? Suicide? Murder?