Adam and Paul

Adam and Paul

Infobox Film
name = Adam and Paul


image_size =
caption = DVD cover of "Adam and Paul"
director = Leonard Abrahamson
producer =
writer = Mark O'Halloran
narrator =
starring = Tom Murphy
Mark O'Halloran
music =
cinematography =
editing =
distributor =
released = 2004
runtime =
country = Ireland
language = English
imdb_id = 0419420

Adam and Paul is a 2004 Irish film. The plot is centred around a day in the life two Dublin City centre junkies, Adam and Paul. Adam is the taller and slightly smarter of the two while Paul is his sidekick.

Plot summary

Since they were small boys, Adam and Paul have withered into two hopeless, desperate Dublin junkies, tied together by habit and necessity. A stylized, downbeat comedy, the film follows the pair through a single day, which, like every other, is entirely devoted to the business of scrounging and robbing money for drugs.

The difference today is that Adam and Paul – already near rock bottom – have finally run out of luck, credit and friends.

Stylistically, ‘Adam & Paul’ is a cold, contemporary take on classic, physical comedy. Thematically, it is a minimal, Beckettesque fairytale about two baffled, vulnerable children in the grip of forces too powerful for them to handle; vulnerable, lost, sometimes pathetically optimistic, but always profoundly damaged. ‘Adam & Paul’ is not a film without hope; it is a tender, unsentimental and very funny testament to the persistence of the human spirit in even the most damaged and marginal of people.

Cast

The short one - Tom Murphy

The tall one - Mark O'Halloran

Georgie - Gary Egan,

Marian - Deirdre Molloy,

Orla - Mary Murray,

Wayne - Paul Roe

Awards and Reception

Adam & Paul' has won the Best Director Award, as well as being nominated in 8 categories for the 2004 Irish Film & Television Award. These include Best Irish Film, Best Script, Best Actor and Best Music.

At the 2005 Berlin Film Festival, 'Adam & Paul' played to an enthusiastic reception as part of the official program of the Panorama section.

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