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since they were small boys, Adam and Paul – and we never
learn which is which – have withered into two hapless, 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
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.
Director – Lenny Abrahamson
Producer – Jonny Speers
Executive Producers – Ed Guiney / Andrew Lowe
Director of Photography - James Mather
Production Designer – Padraig O’Neill
Editor – Isobel Stephenson
Casting Director – Amy Rowan
Production Manager – Iseult O’Siochain
Composer – Stephen Rennicks
Costume Designer – Sonia Lennon
Sound Designer – Nikki Moss
Sound Recordist – Simon Willis
First AD – Séan Griffin
Locations – Michael Swan
Make-up – Tom McInerney
Cast:
Mark O’Halloran
Tom Murphy
'Adam & Paul' has won the Best
Director Award, as well as being nominated
in 8 categories for the 2004 Irish Film &
Television Awards
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