The Adjuster

REVIEW
Original and bizarre, director Egoyan's twisted tale follows Noah (Koteas), a predatory insurance adjuster who shows up at house fires to comfort the victims and process their claims. He keeps all of his clients in a run-down motel, where he visits them daily, often engaging them in sex (male and female alike). Meanwhile, his wife (Khanjian) is secretly videotaping the graphic sex she watches as part of her job as a government censor. Into the picture comes Bubba (Chaykin), an off-the-wall con artist who convinces the Renders that he wants to use their house (a lonely model unit in an as-of-yet unbuilt development) to make a film. Egoyan uses this odd conglomeration of circumstances to plumb the depths of his characters' existential loneliness and to voyeuristically expose their sexual proclivities.