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Adam at 6 a.m.

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Adam at 6 a.m.
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PG,1hr 40min
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1970
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Paramount
Synopsis: Looking like a high-school junior, Michael Douglas plays a college professor in Adam at 6 AM. Tired of academia, Douglas opts for the supposed tranquility of rural Missouri. After working as farm hand for a few weeks, he realizes that his "normal" neighbors are as screwed up as any of his more sophisticated friends. To punch up the film's leisurely screenplay, a great deal of sex talk is injected, which may have sounded daring in 1970 but which plays like an episode of Married: With Children nowadays. ... Full Synopsis
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Adam at 6 a.m. wants to be a penetrating character study about a young man at a crossroads, and of the people and the society he encounters while trying to decide which path to take. Unfortunately, for all its good intentions, what it ends up being is a fairly dull look at a not particularly interesting person. Adam is essentially a cipher, a device which tends to work better in a novel than in a film; ... Full Review
Featured Cast
Adam Gaines
Jerri Jo Hopper
Harvey Gavin
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