• Source: Adams Apples

Adams Apples is a Ghanaian film series, starring Yvonne Okoro, Joselyn Dumas, John Dumelo, Naa Ashorkor Mensa-Doku, Anima Misa Amoah, Adjetey Anang, Helene Asante, SoulKnight Jazz, Jasmine Baroudi, Vincent McCauley, Roselyn Ngissah, Fred Kanebi. The series consists of ten drama feature films, known as "chapters", produced by Ken Attoh and directed by Shirley Frimpong-Manso.
The film series follows the life of the Adams' family, which is made up of Doris Adams (Anima Misa Amoah), a widow of an ex-diplomat, and her three daughters; Baaba (Okoro), Jennifer (Dumas) and Kuukua (Mensah-Doku), showing how they deal with their complicated family, love lives, individual secrets, lies and regrets. A spin-off television drama series, with the same title premiered in February 2013, and has since started airing on DStv's Africa Magic; the television series is set a year after the tenth chapter of the film series.




Cast


Anima Misa Amoah as Doris Adams
Yvonne Okoro as Baaba Adams Smith
Joselyn Dumas as Jennifer Adams
Naa Ashorkor Mensah-Doku as Kuukua Adams
Adjetey Anang as Albert Amankwah (or Albert Adams)
Helene Asante as Ivy Amankwah (or Ivy Adams)
SoulKnight Jazz as Chris Smith
John Dumelo as Denu McCarby
Jasmine Baroudi as Michelle
Vincent McCauley as Foo
Fred Kanebi as Gerald
Roselyn Ngissah as Linda
Fiifi Coleman as Chidi
Sesanu Gbadebo as Eric




Chapters



Most chapters in the series were released at a month's interval, and the entire film series screened at a span of over ten months.

Adams Apples: The Family Ties (2011)
Adams Apples: Twisted Connections (2011)
Adams Apples: Musical Chairs (2011)
Adams Apples: Torn (2011)
Adams Apples: Duplicity (2011)
Adams Apples: Showdown (2011)
Adams Apples: Confessions (2011)
Adams Apples: Fight or Flight (2012)
Adams Apples: Rescue Mission (2012)
Adams Apples: New Beginnings (2012)




Release


Official trailer for the first Chapter in the series was released on 15 April 2011. The first installment in the series premiered on 21 April 2011 and the concluding chapter was released on 25 May 2012. A complete DVD set, containing all ten films in the series was released in December 2012. Adams Apples is available for streaming on Demand Africa Archived 2019-08-30 at the Wayback Machine.




Critical reception


Each film in the series was generally positively received. Nollywood Reinvented, in its review of the film's final installment, praised everything about the film and commented: "Shirley was successful in making this movie ‘more than a conqueror’. The fascinating thing about the Adams Apples movies is the wide range of topics it touches on (if not fully addresses). Conquering love in the face of age differences... how to deal with competitive love... the ability to discern lust from love, a quest for adventure and a lean towards reality... dealing with the mistakes of the past. Above all, realizing the importance of family and trusting God to work things out". Victor Olatoye of Nollywood Critics, in his review of chapter 1 to 3 of the film, commended the character development, gave a 3.5 out of 4 stars and concluded: "If you are looking for a good movie that can make you feel a little happier, smarter, sexier, funnier, more excited and yet full of wahala if that's what you want, then Adams Apples it is. Go ahead and take a pluck, sink your teeth in them, but just know there will be troubles". Circumspecte in its overview of the film series comments: "I'll employ one word to describe Shirley Frimpong Manso's latest film, Adams Apples - delightful. And it is, in every sense of the word. From the script, to the characters, to the picture quality, the music, costume, promotion, everything really, was tastefully done".




External links


Official website
Adams Apples at IMDb
Adams Apples Archived 2019-08-30 at the Wayback Machine on Demand Africa




References

• Source: Adam's Apples

Adam's Apples (Danish: Adams Æbler) is a 2005 Danish-language black comedy-drama film directed and written by Anders Thomas Jensen. The film revolves around the theme of the Book of Job. The main roles are played by Ulrich Thomsen and Mads Mikkelsen.




Plot


Neo-Nazi gang leader Adam is granted parole from prison for participating in a rehabilitation program, where he joins the aggressive Saudi gas station robber Khalid and the kleptomaniac rapist Gunnar. The community is headed by the priest Ivan, who believes firmly and blindly in the goodness of man, and is seemingly oblivious to the ongoing misconduct and aggression of his charges.
Ivan tells Adam to choose a goal for himself to complete his rehabilitation. Trying to mock the priest, Adam chooses the goal of baking an apple pie. Ivan accepts, but stipulates that making the pie includes grooming and harvesting the churchyard apple tree. Adam is loath to complete his task, especially because at first crows attack the apples, and later most of those that remain are eaten by worms. The misanthropic Nazi is especially irritated by Ivan's joyful manner, excessive optimism and extreme forgiveness, and he sets it as his personal goal to break the priest's spirit and crush his faith.
Adam discovers that Ivan's life has been very difficult. Growing up as a victim of child abuse, he has terminal brain cancer, and is the widowed father of a severely disabled child. The cynical village doctor theorizes that Ivan discounts reality and sees all problems as tests from the devil, because his real life would be otherwise nearly impossible to bear. Adam psychologically attacks the priest by quoting the Book of Job, reasoning that it is God who hates the priest, not the devil. Ivan finally breaks down and renounces his faith.
Adam is gleeful at first, but soon realizes that without Ivan's influence, Khalid and Gunnar revert quickly to their criminal habits, and starts realizing the positive impact the priest had made. When several members of Adam's neo-Nazi gang visit the church and confront Khalid for earlier having shot two of their members, Ivan comes out of the church and demands to be allowed to die in peace. A scuffle ensues and the leader of the neo-Nazis accidentally shoots the priest in the eye.
At the hospital, the doctor predicts Ivan will be dead by morning. Suddenly guilt-stricken, Adam stays up all night baking a tiny, one-apple pie for Ivan, using the single apple surviving the sequential mishaps that happened to the apple-tree throughout the film.
When he arrives at the hospital, he finds that Ivan's bed is empty. He goes to find Ivan's doctor, who tells him that the priest is in the garden – the bullet that hit him has neatly removed the tumour that plagued him.
In an epilogue, Adam remains at the church as an assistant to Ivan, and Ivan and Adam welcome two similarly troubled men recently released from prison.




Cast


Ulrich Thomsen as Adam Pedersen
Mads Mikkelsen as Ivan Fjeldsted
Nicolas Bro as Gunnar
Paprika Steen as Sarah Svendsen
Ali Kazim as Khalid
Ole Thestrup as Dr. Kolberg
Nikolaj Lie Kaas as Holger
Gyrd Løfquist as Poul Nordkap
Lars Ranthe as Esben
Peter Reichhardt as Nalle
Tomas Villum Jensen as Arne
Peter Lambert as Jørgen




Reception


The film holds a score of 70% positive reviews on a review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes with the average score of 6.3/10, based on 37 reviews, with critical consensus being: "Good and evil collide with interesting results in Adam's Apples, a dark Biblical allegory that's alternatively funny and shocking." On another review aggregator site Metacritic, the film scored 51 out of 100, based on 12 reviews.




References






External links


Adam's Apples at IMDb

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