The Adjuster

Canada

1991

102 Min

Color

2.35:1

English

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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PROD Camelia Frieberg, David J. Webb

CAST Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose, Jennifer Dale, David Hemblen, Rose Sarkisyan, Armen Kokorian, Jacqueline Samuda, Gerard Parkes, Patricia Collins, Don McKellar, John Gilbert, Stephen Ouimette, Raoul Trujillo

PROD DES Linda del Rosario, Richard Paris

MUSIC Mychael Danna

Toronto: Best Canadian Feature Film, Cannes (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs), Locarno (Out of Competition), Edinburgh, New York

Synopsis

A reflection about what makes everyone’s life unique, through the story of Noah’s family. Noah is an adjuster, having sex with his customers. His wife Hera watches pornographic movies for the Board of Censors. They live with their son Simon and Hera’s sister in a show-flat. One day, they meet Bubba, who wants to make a movie in their house. —IMDb

Director

Atom Egoyan

Atom Egoyan’s parents were painters and he studied International Relations and music at the University of Toronto where he began making short films: “Howard in Particular” 1979, “After Grad with Dad” 1980, “Peep Show” 1981 and “Open House” 1982.

While he has several distinguished Television and Opera works on his resume and such pictures as his debut “Next of Kin” 1984, Berlin and Moscow International Film Festival-winning “Family Viewing” 1987 and “The Adjuster” 1991 – his most critically acclaimed creation is The Sweet Hereafter (1997) and his most famous work is the astonishingly clever film-in-film Ararat (2002)

4 time Cannes Film Festival winner and the most famous Armenian filmmaker since Sergei Parajanov, the Egypt-born, Canada-bred, Oscar-nominated master of indie cinema, has collected an impressive 4 awards from the prestigious Toronto International Film Festival.

A 7 time recipient of Canada’s top Genie Awards, he is a remarkable figure in contemporary… read more

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Lefteris Becerra

8Sep09

egoyan at his best; the adjuster story is bizarre enough to get you in and the same goes to his wife who works as a film censor who collects all the scenes that she cuts...