Fresh
In a less competitive year, Jeff Goldblum would have had a shot at an Oscar nod.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Adam Resurrected
In a world gone mad, being insane was just a way to fit in.
2008 · 1h 47m · R
Drama, War
Directed by
Paul Schrader
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Adam Resurrected
Overview
After again attempting to commit murder, a Jewish man with a mysterious past and extraordinary intelligence, charisma, and body control returns to an insane asylum, where he makes a startling discovery.
Director and cast
- Paul Schrader Director
- Jeff Goldblum as Adam Stein
- Willem Dafoe as Commandat Klein
- Derek Jacobi as Dr. Nathan Gross
- Ayelet Zurer as Gina Grey
- Hana Laslo as Rachel Shwester
- Joachim Król as Abe Wolfowitz
- Evgenia Dodina as Gretchen Stein
- Idan Alterman as Arthur
- Juliane Köhler as Ruth Edelson
- Tudor Rapiteanu as David
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
37%
Tomatometer
Fresh
One cannot recommend this film strongly enough.
F.X. Feeney, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
A semi-unbearable attempt at profundity set in a mental institution 15 years after WWII.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Rotten
Savage gallows humor might have substituted for pathos. But Adam Resurrected feels so detached that there is not a laugh, nor even a wicked smirk of nihilistic glee, to be gleaned.
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh
Even when it flies off the rails deep into its third act, Resurrected remains strangely hypnotic.
Nathan Rabin, AV Club
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