A mondo-bizarro movie: spare, precise, neatnik images of uniformly loopy characters. ("I wanted to make a film," director Atom Egoyan has stated, "about believable people doing believable things in an unbelievable way." Batting average: .333.) The title character is an insurance-claims adjuster who is worshipped as "an angel" at the motel where he places the victims of fires; and who treats such victims with almost a mortician's sensitivity; and who services their sexual wants irrespective of their sex. His wife works in the censor's office. (This is apparently Canada, or anyway the movie is Canadian-made.) A lachrymose porn producer asks to use their home as a location for his current project. A creepy Twin Peaks-y musical score slithers beneath the action. An occasional chuckle punctuates the monotony. Elias Koteas, Arsinée Khanjian, Maury Chaykin. (1991) — Duncan Shepherd
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