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* PetTheDog: Adam and Paul are at least kind to Janine's infant son.
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* BatterUp: Two criminals kidnap Adam and Paul and order them to stand watch while they smash up a convenience store and threaten the employees with baseball bats.
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* TheEasyWayOrTheHardWay: In a seedy apartment building, Adam and Paul see a group of thugs trying to break into drug dealer Martin's apartment. One of them calls, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way, but either way you're gonna get your fuck kicked in!"
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* TalkAboutTheWeather: In a cafe, Adam is trying to steal a woman's bag with his foot. Paul unsuccessfully tries to distract the cashier by saying, "Having loads of weather at the moment, aren't we?"
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* OrangeBlueContrast: The scene where Adam and Paul wander around high on heroin has orange streetlights contrasting with blue shadows.
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* FiveFingerDiscount: Adam and Paul feed themselves mostly by shoplifting. In one scene Paul attempts to steal from a convenience store but is kicked out for touching a loaf of bread with his filthy hands. Fellow homeless guy Karl manages to steal the bread and gives it to Paul, rationalizing that it would have been thrown out anyway.
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* AddledAddict: Adam and Paul will stoop to almost anything for a fix, including attempting to mug a teenager with Down syndrome.
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* AddledAddict: Adam and Paul will stoop have lost the ability to care about almost anything except their next fix. They'll do anything for a fix, it, including attempting to mug mugging a teenager with Down syndrome.syndrome, who turns out not to have anything valuable.
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''Adam & Paul'' is a 2004 Irish {{dramedy}} film written by Mark O'Halloran and directed by Creator/LennyAbrahamson.
Adam (O'Halloran) and Paul (Tom Murphy) are best friends and homeless heroin addicts. The movie follows a day in their lives as they wander through UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}} trying to make enough money to score. In between their attempts at begging and stealing, they have encounters with various bystanders, petty criminals, and people from their past.
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!!''Adam & Paul'' contains examples of:
* AddledAddict: Adam and Paul will stoop to almost anything for a fix, including attempting to mug a teenager with Down syndrome.
* LookBothWays: Paul walks across the street without looking and is struck by a moped. He spends the rest of the day walking with a limp and complaining about the pain in his leg.
* PottyEmergency: Paul is struck by cramps while walking down the sidewalk. He's scared of the nearest public toilet, so instead he shits in a narrow alleyway, and wipes himself with a soggy newspaper Adam finds.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Early in the movie, Adam and Paul learn that their old friend Matthew has been dead for a month. It's implied that Adam and Paul turned him onto drugs, and that he overdosed.
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Adam (O'Halloran) and Paul (Tom Murphy) are best friends and homeless heroin addicts. The movie follows a day in their lives as they wander through UsefulNotes/{{Dublin}} trying to make enough money to score. In between their attempts at begging and stealing, they have encounters with various bystanders, petty criminals, and people from their past.
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!!''Adam & Paul'' contains examples of:
* AddledAddict: Adam and Paul will stoop to almost anything for a fix, including attempting to mug a teenager with Down syndrome.
* LookBothWays: Paul walks across the street without looking and is struck by a moped. He spends the rest of the day walking with a limp and complaining about the pain in his leg.
* PottyEmergency: Paul is struck by cramps while walking down the sidewalk. He's scared of the nearest public toilet, so instead he shits in a narrow alleyway, and wipes himself with a soggy newspaper Adam finds.
* ToxicFriendInfluence: Early in the movie, Adam and Paul learn that their old friend Matthew has been dead for a month. It's implied that Adam and Paul turned him onto drugs, and that he overdosed.
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