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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Insurance adjuster Noah (Elias Koteas) works with people who have suffered the loss of their homes and other disasters. He gets a little too involved with his clients, taking advantage of their vulnerability to control their lives--while only having the most glancing interactions with his own wife, Hera (Arsinee Khanjian), who secretly videotapes the porn films she watches for a government censor board. When another couple (Maury Chaykin and Gabrielle Rose) poses as part of a film crew who want to use Noah and Hera's house, Noah moves his family into the motel where he houses his displaced clients, bringing his separate worlds too close together. Though initially mysterious and distanced, The Adjuster builds carefully to a striking sense of loss and sorrow. As in his earlier films, Canadian auteur Atom Egoyan explores how people evade and contain the traumas in their lives. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - great confusing movie
I love this film. I had to actually watch it 3 times in order to understand it.
If you like movies like Body Heat, One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest, and The Long Goodbye you probably have a similar taste to me and will love this.
This film examines human interactions and vices. It takes reality and distorts it in a way that you will probably hate this film first time through and then come back to it and completely understand.
Rating: - To my view, the masterpiece of Atom Egoyan!
Through two merciless human beings: a insurance agent and his wife conform a miserable duo: he practices the voyeurism and she edits, after taping, the private sexual affairs of his clients. As you see, the dramatic plot will engage you from start to finish.
Its boldness, intriguing and provocative nature make of this film one of the most attractive, original and striking films of 1991 and one of the most remarkable of the nineties. Egoyan is one the most controversial film makers in the world ... Read More
Rating:  - Adjusting to the Adjuster
Adjusting oneself to the Adjuster, 27 September 2002
Author: mike rice (...) from United States
I've decided that Egoyan is a minimalist. Not only are great gaps created on purpose in the Egoyan film script, an enormous amount of dialogue is left unwritten as well. Including the Adjuster I have seen at least three of his films. Exotica is the one I remember the least, the Sweet Hereafter the one I recall best. Sweet Hereafter was closer to being a conventional film, its script an adaptation ... Read More
Rating: - AMAZING ATOM
Atom Egoyan has been an amazing director. I agree that this film is his best...it is introspective, intense & intelligent. I spotted this qoute and have to share it:
"With the recurring presence of irrational and bizarre moments, The Adjuster, more than any other Egoyan film, achieves a surreal force."
-Peter Harcourt, film critic Source
Rating: - A Great Modern Drama about Sexual Obsession
Surreal as it may "The Adjuster" is still streaks and bounds ahead of most other sexual dramas. The story basically revolves around an insurance claims advisor (Elias Koteas) who helps people come to terms with the lose of their homes and possessions to some form of accident. He wife Hera (Arsinee Khanjian) works as a film censor who secretly films the pornography that she is viewing. There are various other characters who come into contact with the pair and sexual fantasies are the main theme that drives the ... Read More
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