Comedy | Drama | Canada | English | Colour | Dir: Atom Egoyen | 102min w/ Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin, Gabrielle Rose, Jennifer Dale The Adjuster is part absurdist comedy, part tragedy An uptight insurance man (Elias Koteas) and his film-censor wife (Arsinée Khanjian) become a kinky couple's landlords. A reflection about what makes everyone's life unique, through the story of Noah's family. The Adjuster stars Elias Koteas as Noah, an insurance adjuster who attaches himself to fire victims with a frightening devotion that includes not only comfort, but also sex. He is alienated from his wife, Nera (Arsinée Khanjian), an Ontario Film Board censor with her own disturbing obsessions. She secretly videotapes the smut she watches, to replay at home for her sister. They live in a model home in a surreal, discontinued suburban development. The film's other major characters are a rich, bored couple (Maury Chaykin and Gabrielle Rose) who enact strange sexual games in public. Their lives overlap when Chaykin's character wants to use Noah's home for a stag movie. An oblique and elliptical tale that explores “the duality of intimacy and detachment,” The Adjuster (1991) was Atom Egoyan’s fourth feature film and the first to receive widespread international acclaim. It won several high profile awards, including the Best Canadian Feature Film Award from the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), and established Egoyan as an original, new voice in international cinema. It was named one of the Top 10 Canadian films of all time in a poll conducted by TIFF (The Toronto International Film Festival) in 1993.