Tired of a glossy West Coast life with superficial family and friends, Adam (Michael Douglas in his second starring role) trades in his career as an idealistic college professor and heads to Missouri where he gets a grueling job as a laborer and find a new outlook on the future. But as he makes new friends (Joe Don Baker) and falls in love (Lee Purcell), the new scenery may not be as different from his past as he originally believed. A moody and meditative counterculture drama about finding yourself, Adam at Six A.M. could have only been made during the turbulent transition into the ‘Me’ decade.
