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Plot

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. Adam at 6 AM is blessed with a superb supporting cast: among the secondary actors is 1940s leading lady Anne Gwynne, making a one-time-only film comeback.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Drama
Run Time:
100min.
DVD Release Date:
06/14/2005
Director(s):
Robert Scheerer
Starring:
Michael Douglas , Lee Purcell , Joe Don Baker , Marge Redmond
Themes:
Starting Over,Journey of Self-Discovery
Tone:
Confrontational,Moody,Reflective
Keywords:
academic [person],coming-of-age,disillusionment,downward-mobility,love,professor,romance,roots [origins]
Language:
English