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Young Adam (2003)

Young Adam (2003)

R 93 minutes EN Drama , Thriller , Crime , Romance
Everyone has a past. Everyone has a secret.
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
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