About Adam (2000)

Stuart Townsend: Adam

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• Adam : Listen, You know when we make love for the first time. Well, I just wanted to let you know, I want to leave it all up to you, your call.

  Lucy Owens : I don't get you Adam.

  Adam : Everything, you know? When and where, the circumstances. I want it to happen... I want it to be exactly the way you'd like it to be. Is that ok?

  Lucy Owens : [voice over, Lucy thinking to herself]  How about now? right here in the car.

  [Lucy catches her breath and replies to Adam] 

  Lucy Owens : I'll think about that.

• Alice Owens Rooney : Why do you do it, Adam?

  Adam : Well, I don't know. I definitely don't do it because someone's fucked up my life and I want to get revenge. That would be no good, Alice. But maybe... Would you believe me if I told you that when I'm with people, listening to them, I notice that they always want something from me?

  Alice Owens Rooney : Oh, I'd believe that alright.

  Adam : And it doesn't annoy me, I really like it. I like to give people what they want, if I can. Whatever makes them happy it's a very easy thing for me to do.

• [Lucy is talking into a microphone onstage at the restaurant] 

  Lucy Owens : My family's here tonight sitting at that table over there. Were celebrating my mum's birthday today. We all love you, Peggy Owens! And, there's a man down there in my crowd called Adam and he's my fella. And I know my mum's mad about him. So I thought the best present I could give my mum would be to say that him and I are going to get married.

  [Crowd starts cheering loudly] 

  Lucy Owens : Oh, wait! No, no, no! No, no! Wait, wait, wait! You see, I haven't asked him yet. So, Adam, I'm asking you now. Will you marry me?

  Adam : I'd love to!

• [Adam, Lucy and Lucy's mother are all driving in Adam jaguar after taking a hike in a park] 

  Peggy Owens : I could get used to this car. Did you tell her the story, by the way?

  Adam : No, I didn't.

  Lucy Owens : What?

  Peggy Owens : All the interesting things you find out when you're out on a mountain stroll.

  Lucy Owens : Tell me what?

  Peggy Owens : Can we tell her? A very simple lovely story. Even though he was very young when his mummy and daddy died, Adam always remembered, as a little fella, that when they went for walks they used to pass by this big fancy car sales place and his dad had a big thing about this particular car, a Jaguar.

  Adam : "Just look at that Jag," he'd say. I thought it must be the most wonderful thing in the world.

  Peggy Owens : His dad was always promising his mum that when they had a bit of money to splash out, that he'd buy her one. Do you know what this little beauty did? Years after, when he turned eighteen and got the bit of money that was left to him he used it all to buy this car to remember them by.

  Lucy Owens : Adam, why didn't you tell me? Hmm?

  Adam : I don't know.

  Lucy Owens : Oh, my.