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"Adam & Paul" is the first feature film by Leonard Abrahamson and narrates the wanderings of a couple of young polydrug dysfunctional and a little over a day.

The excellent performance of the late Tom Murphy immediately recalls the famous Stan Laurel and perhaps here the feeling that accompanies unsafe tragicomic steps of the couple.

At first the feeling that history ... read more

The film follows two hapless Dublin drug buddies through a single day, which, like every other, is entirely devoted to the business of scrounging and robbing money for drugs. The difference today is that Adam and Paul, already at rock bottom, have finally run out of luck, credit and friends.