About Adam

2000 Comedy

Gerard Stembridge directs this charming comedy about a handsome stranger who wreaks havoc on an entire family. Pub torch singer Lucy Owen (Kate Hudson) falls for Adam (Stuart Townsend) as soon as she lays eyes on him. Tired of a string of failed short-termed relationships, she succumbs to Adam's radiate charisma and agrees to marry him after only knowing him for a scant couple of days. Yet when she brings him home to her family, she finds to her dismay that his magnetism works equally well on her two older sisters. The middle one, Laura (Frances O'Connor), is a shy bookish sort whose love for poetry proves to be her weakness, while eldest sister Alice (Charlotte Bradley) is aloof at first, but eventually she also yields to his wiles. This film was screened at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

Director: Gerard Stembridge

Starring: Stuart Townsend, Frances O'Connor, Charlotte Bradley, Kate Hudson, Alan Maher

Reviews

  • A sly romantic comedy made with wit and style.

    Kevin Thomas - Los Angeles Times

    29 November 2012

  • Writer-director Gerard Stembridge keeps the amoral laughs bubbling.

    Peter Travers - Rolling Stone

    29 November 2012

  • Seems refreshing, even mildly subversive.

    Stephen Holden - The New York Times

    29 November 2012

  • In a moralistic time, About Adam is something of an anomaly, as it airily sticks to its pro-naughtiness agenda.

    - The Boston Globe

    29 November 2012

  • Thanks to Hudson and the other women, it's a moderately beguiling date movie.

    Lou Lumenick - New York Post

    29 November 2012

Awards

  • Best Director of a Feature Film

    Irish Film and Television Awards (2003)