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The movie starts with Adam (Douglas) as a linguistics professor in California. During summer break, he takes the opportunity to look at his life. The movie doesn't really spend enough time developing the early Adam, but he sees something in his life he doesn't like. He finds out that an aunt that lived in Missouri has died and he takes this opportunity to drive across country for the funeral and maybe a better life.

Being somewhat disenchanted with California life, Adam enjoys what he saw in Missouri. He is introduced to Jerri Jo (Purcell) and as most guy meets girl plots go, they fall in love. Because of this, he decides to spend his summer break in Missouri. He gets a job and makes friends with the locals. Joe Don Baker plays a member of Adam's work crew, and is portrayed as the basic mid-western, small town family man. With a wife and kids he seems happy, but restricted from doing much else with his life.

Time progresses and Adam and Jerri Jo decide to get married. But not much later, he begins to see Jerri Jo and her family in a different light. He notices little snippets of the life he might be living, if he goes through with the marriage. It becomes more and more obvious to him that he and Jerri Jo don't share the same views of married life.

From interaction with Jerri Jo's family and friends, his concerns build until he seems to struggle with the choice he's made. He sees a "cookie cutter" way of life laid out for him, if he stays in Missouri. He's torn between two worlds. There are parts of Missouri life he would enjoy, but he also enjoyed parts of the free spirit life he had in California. The intensity builds until he finally has to choose.

I won't spoil the end, although some of the other reviews have already done that. I enjoyed this movie. I think I partly liked seeing the places I'm familiar with, the faces I know, etc. But I'm also very much a Michael Douglas fan. This film was before "The Streets of San Francisco", a series I loved. And you'll see a much younger Douglas in this movie, although you'll see his compelling persona has already begun to form.

To give you a bit of an inside, I grew up in Cameron, Missouri. It was one of the small towns this movie was filmed in. I was 17 at the time. The producers came to our high school, looking for extras. They wanted a fresh and naive mid-western look. Men with short cut hair and no mustaches or sideburns, women with wholesome, girl next door faces.

I don't intend to spoil the "look" of the movie for you, but it was obvious that they wanted Missouri to look vastly different than California's "hip" way of life. I thought they might have gone too far looking for the "hick" element in contrast. They even had a tractor driving down the main street of our town, in the film.

Other than some things that only a local might see, they did a pretty good job of showing how a small mid-west town was, back in the late 60s or early 70s. And although this production has some flaws, it shows a "coming of age" struggle that many young people deal with. I think this movie is worth your time.

This is an unusual film for Michael Douglas, and kind of "lost". I wonder if it was ever even released? I rather doubt it's even available on video or DVD today: your only shot at seeing it is late at night on same cable station. Which is how I saw it, many years ago.

Adam is a late 20s college professor having a sort of early mid-life crisis when he decides to spontaneously attend a family funeral in the Midwest. Away from his intellectual/liberal environment and hedonistic lifestyle, he finds life in the small town surprisingly warm and embracing. In time, he has a working class job (light years from his cushy teaching job), friends (Joe Don Baker) and a cute girlfriend for whom he has the major hots, but who is "saving herself for marriage." Adam becomes, for this one summer anyhow, so immersed in this simple down-to-earth lifestyle that he decides to marry the girlfriend and buy a house.

At this point, the film takes a sharp detour...as if ashamed suddenly of the idea that simple hard work, good friends and a loving marriage might be exactly what spoiled pretentious Adam needed all along. So he abruptly decides to "chuck it all" when sent on a mission to buy vanilla ice cream for his fiancé's bridal shower...and skedaddles out of town in his sports car, presumably never to be seen again. (Or maybe to return to his unhappy life as a swinging college teacher.) No closure on the presumably broken-hearted fiancé, who had to be humiliated by his disappearance, or his confused and hurt friends.

For some reason this film has stuck in my mind all these years. I think because up until the final couple of minutes, it almost seems like a pre-Reagan paean to family values...which would have made "Adam" a real oddity in 1970. Some good supporting work from supporting actors. This film also foreshadows the 80s film, "Amber Waves of Grain" with Kurt Russell and Mare Winningham, about a spoiled actor who becomes a farm worker.

If you are up late at night and this comes on...watch it. Something different, and you get to see a very young Michael Douglas.

(BTW: No, the title makes no sense at all.)

Idealistic college professor decides to find himself by spending a summer in the midwest as a laborer. He meets and falls in love with a beautiful young lady who, to his regret, cannot share his same vision. Biggest differance here is that the other laborers aren't potrayed as ignorant, suspicious, bigots. Instead we see them as friendly, helpful, and interesting people. Does degenerate into the perverbial bar fight, but mostly this is a subdued, almost loving look at Americas' heartland. Great chance to see Michael Douglas in a very early dramatic role. (He did this even before STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO). Lee Purcell is also quite good becoming easily identifiable of most young ladies of that era (and even today). She willingly takes on the more 'liberated' values of the younger generation when it is conveniant and fun, but is unable (and unwilling) to break from the mores of the enviroment from which she was raised. Has a good final shot.

A minor cult classic for fans of 70s films. Joe Don Baker is outstanding. I highly recommend it, if you see it in the late-night TV listing.

That would be the only reason why I would watch it again. I was 3 years old when it was made, but I remember my parents talking about how exciting it was to have Michael Douglas staying in our little 'ol town and how everyone in town were extras in the movie. I've seen it as an adult and the only thing I enjoyed about it was looking for familiar faces and familiar places in my hometown. I would imagine anyone not from my hometown wouldn't enjoy this movie as much as I did.

It is kind of an interesting movie to watch, early in the career of Michael Douglas. I believe this movie was made before he did Streets of San Francisco which by the way I absolutely loved!

Adam Gaines (Michael Douglas) is working for a PHD in semantics in California. He is drifting through a comfortable life. His family is rich and beautiful babes want him. He goes to the funeral of a relative in small town Missouri although he hasn't been there since his childhood. He decides to spend his summer as a laborer on a work crew and finds a more fulfilling life.

This movie came and went during its run. It may be more notable for being the first movie from Steve McQueen's film company. The subject matter seems to be a rejection of the new thinking in favor of old fashion values. The issue may be that this is an indie designed for the flyover states although there are some stereotype rednecks. I do enjoy many of the individual scenes and many of the characters especially Harvey. The girl is cute but lackluster. The movie is fine but the tension is not that high until the ending.

Saw Adam at 6AM decades ago. I believe it was Michael Douglas's first movie and he was still in college when asked to make the movie. The movie gets its name, when Adam starts his trip east in the red sports car and the camera focus on the clock 6 AM. The movie was very low budget. Several scenes in Mo at the home were never cropped and you can see the the lighting and other equipment. They never went back to re shoot. Michael's voice hadn't developed, but you can see his grace and charm even at this young age.

The movie starts to drag about 3/4 through and doesn't pick up.Obvious when the movie was casted, producers wanted the Douglas name even if only the son of Kirk was available. Movie appears to be related to the the graduate.I'm still trying to remember the res sports car, was it and Austin Healey? Reminds me of my TRS 3 in college. I knew I had something in common with Michael Douglas.

Call it sentiments of generation X before generation X. This movie was fantastic. It asks the sincere question: do you see yourself as successful, or do others see it in you? And what would happen if you and society found your success in different places? The last scene captures the outcome visually with great symbolism.

Bored with his job as an assistant linguistics professor at a California university--and equally disenchanted with the indifferent woman in his bed--young Adam hears of a relative's funeral in Missouri and hits the highway in his Porsche, in search of the Meaning of Life. The political and socioeconomic issues raised by screenwriters Stephen and Elinor Karpf seem to flare up out of nowhere, while brooding-but-sincere Michael Douglas seems unsure how to respond to the hubbub. The Karpf's main concern, as it turns out, is in finding Adam an understanding woman to love, which makes this 'unconventional' movie just as formulaic as all the other coming-of-age dramas released in the wake of "The Graduate". Professionally done, and with a finale not unlike that of "Five Easy Pieces", released the same year. ** from ****

Michael Douglas plays a young semantics professor who has several close lady friends. I believe the film takes place in California. It has a definite hippie-era vibe. The soundtrack is kind of country-sounding, and it makes you wish they'd spent a little cash on getting some popular rock musicians to do the score. No real original music to keep the film "fresh-feeling". I've seen a dozen better films from this era about similar subject matter. Nicholson was in about five or so of them. Douglas always has a p***ed off look on his face in this movie. But I still enjoy almost every MD film I watch. He's just not Jack Nicholson. Then again, who is? Except Mr.Ray-Bans himself.

Typical 1960s early 1970s film about dropping out and finding oneself. Nothing new here. Decent acting, but a bit overdone. Fair.

Douglas stars as a big city California college professor who realizes his life is pretty unfulfilled. His cushy college job is pretty boring and he's tired of waking up Monday with what's her name Sunday. He's lived a very pampered life from rich parents as everything in his life came on a silver platter and he's taken far too many things for granted. While visiting his parents, he overhears his mother on the telephone ordering flowers to be sent to a recently deceased relative's funeral in a small Missouri town. It dawns on him to get away from it all, drive across the country and get to know his virtually unknown relatives.

As soon as he goes to the funeral he's touched even though the locals treat him like he just stepped off the mother ship. Feeling like he's finally home he gets a bush-clearing job and despite being over educated and underpaid his life is new again. At the funeral he meets a popular local girl (played by Lee Purcell) who immediately sets her sights on Douglas; she wants a husband and her parents are ready for a son-in-law. The two fall in love but he soon discovers someone else once again controls his life, this time by his soon to be in-laws all neatly packaged and planned. Even though he truly loves his girl he isn't sure if he's ready to settle down and be rooted in another town just yet.

If the movie were made today it would probably be made into a comedy with Ice Cube so I'm very happy that it was made during the time it was. The plot tackled important issues and it was meant to be a drama.

The movie includes a wonderful cast, including Michael Douglas and Lee Purcell of course. Other standouts include Joe Don Baker as Douglas' logger co-worker whose big dream is becoming a TV repairman or the meddling future in-laws played by Louise Latham and Charles Aidman.

Also check out the really good song "Elijah Rise Up" by Danny O'Keefe.

I was only able to find this title on VHS about 10 years ago as an out-of-print special order. It would be very nice having it on DVD, as it's a great collection to any fan of Michael Douglas, the 70's or just great acting. Interestingly in this movie Douglas plays a professor was released in 1970 and the other Douglas' movie "Summertree" in 1971 in which he played a college student, one year later.

The person who made the comment that the title of this film makes no sense is incorrect. Of course, the title makes sense. The main character, Adam, is a young college professor who spends the summer working at a blue collar job. Thus, he gets up at 6 a.m. to go to work. The entire movie is about the summer that he spends working at this job. I first saw this film when I was about twelve or thirteen, and I absolutely loved it. It's now a period piece, but it's an excellent period piece. The last shot of this film--which I won't reveal here--is wonderful. I've described it to many, many people over the years as being one of the funniest things that I've ever seen in a movie. I can still remember watching this on television with my brother and my father, and we all laughed hysterically at that final shot.

There is something very honest about this movie. Some people say this is a poor copy of The Graduate but i find Adam at 6 A. M more honest and realistic.

The script is great so is the Dave Grusin score. Some of the scenes with the workers, the conversations at the workplace and at the bar are just so real, it really feels like watching real life instead of a movie. All the actors, main and supporting ones did a great job.

Michael Douglas knew when to shine and when to step back and let others do the work, like a passive observer.

Brilliant direction as well.

A solid 8 but because of the low rating i will give it a 10.

This is a very early Michael (or as he was popularly known then, Mikey) Douglas vehicle. He plays a disillusioned college professor of the late Sixties (there seem to have been so many of them scurrying about in those days!) who drops out of his successful, stressful life in the big city to go in a search for his roots in a not-so-idyllic midwestern small town. The story plods along, showing his courtship of a rather status-proud Junior Miss type whose Mom (wonderfully etched by Louise Latham) is the town hairdresser, and his adventures in serious male bonding with Joe Don Baker and other flannel clad logger types. Grayson Hall has an excellent cameo role as his aunt, and gets to administer a deft put-down of Douglas' masculine vanity towards the end. In some ways the last 30 seconds is the best part of the movie. Overall not at all a bad effort. To quote Maggie Smith in a movie that is much more suitable to this writer's temperament, "For those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing that they like." I did make liberal use of the fast forward button in viewing "Adam at Six A. M."