About Adam **½ (2000, Stuart Townsend, Kate Hudson, Frances O’Connor) – Classic Movie Review 2145

Writer-director Gerard Stembridge’s weird, larky little Dublin-set 2000 romantic comedy boasts lots of good acting and quite a few laughs at the witty lines. Stuart Townsend stars as handsome, smiling philanderer Adam who catches the eye of Dublin waitress Lucy (Kate Hudson) and at once gets her to agree to marry him.

Townsend is certainly seductive and looks the part of Adam, the arrogant bounder, oozing the right oily charm, and Hudson certainly has her charms too. But it’s all a bit iffy and faintly offensive, as Adam turns out to be a cad and sexual predator, who proceeds to seduce Hudson’s two sisters, bookish Laura (Frances O’Connor) and sophisticated Alice (Charlotte Bradley), and even visits their excited brother David (Alan Maher) and the brother’s girlfriend too.

It’s hardly a new idea, either: Theorem and Something for Everyone did it better 30 years earlier. But, still, it’s decently acted and neatly, briskly filmed.

© Derek Winnert 2015 Classic Movie Review 2145

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