The Atom Egoyan Collection

Collection of seven films directed by Atom Egoyan. In 'Exotica' (1994) pet shop owner Thomas (Don McKellar) arrives in town with a secret cache of rare bird eggs. Sharing a cab from the airport he ends up in Exotica, a local strip club. Fascinated by star stripper Christina (Mia Kirshner), he becomes drawn into her sordid lifestyle, along with the club DJ (Elias Koteas) and a disturbed tax auditor (Bruce Greenwood). In 'The Adjuster' (1991) Koteas stars as Noah Render, an insurance adjuster whose attempts to help others mask a deeper malaise in his own life. His wife Hera (Arsin�e Khanjian) is a disillusioned film censor who obsessively copies the most explicit scenes in the films she is supposed to review. After Noah helps a rich young woman whose house has burned down, Hera invites a young film-maker into their home to shoot a movie, and as their elaborate sexual fantasies are acted out on video, they begin to explore a world where voyeurism and exhibitionism are all-consuming. In 'Family Viewing' (1987) Van (Aidan Tierney) finds himself in a difficult situation when he realises that his father Stan (David Hemblen) is recording over the family's home movies with home-made pornography. Not only is Stan's lover Sandra (Gabrielle Rose) completely at the mercy of his dark fantasies, but she also expresses a sexual interest in Van. Dividing his time between the family home and a nearby nursing residence caring for his ageing grandmother Armen (Selma Keklikian), Van meets Aline (Khanjian), who works as a phone-sex operator, and the two concoct a plan to escape his emotionally cold father. In 'The Sweet Hereafter' (1997) powerful lawyer Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm) arrives in a small town in British Columbia after 14 children die in a school bus crash. Announcing that he will win compensation for the townsfolk, Stephens investigates the mysterious circumstances surrounding the accident, discovering various dark secrets lurking beneath the surface. In 'Calendar' (1993) a photographer (Egoyan) and his wife (Khanjian) travel to Armenia to photograph churches for use in a calendar, employing a native speaking driver (Ashot Adamyan) to escort them around the country. On their travels a relationship develops between the photographer's wife and the Armenian guide. Looking back on this time from his apartment in Toronto, the newly separated photographer contacts women through an escort agency and invites them to dinner, all while his estranged wife tries reconcile with him. In 'Next of Kin' (1984) Peter (Patrick Tierney) is a young man from an Anglo-Saxon family who is constantly under pressure to do something meaningful with his life. The family visit a therapist in the hopes of getting to the bottom of the tension between themselves and Peter's apparent laziness. When Peter visits the clinic before the next session hoping to view the video recording of their last meeting, he is given the wrong tape and instead is shown the recording of an immigrant family who had given up their first son for adoption upon entering the country. What Peter then suggests to his family and therapist is that he take a break in order to find himself, but what he actually does is assume the identity of this other family's long-lost son. Finally, in 'Speaking Parts' (1989), struggling actor Lance (Michael McManus) works in housekeeping at a local hotel while waiting for his first speaking role. Meanwhile, his co-worker Lisa (Khanjian) is obsessed with him and seeks out all the movies he appears in as a means of satisfying her voyeuristic tendencies. When Lance learns a scriptwriter, Clara (Rose), is staying at the hotel he chooses to leave his r�sum� in her room in the hope that she'll give him a part in her next film about her late brother. Before long the two become romantically involved and Lance finds himself with his first lead role but Clara becomes increasingly distressed when a series of changes are made to her story by the movie's producer.

Director: Atom Egoyan
Producer: Atom Egoyan
Producer: Camelia Frieberg
Writer: Atom Egoyan
Music: Mychael Danna
Cinematographer: Robert MacDonald
Cinematographer: Peter Mettler
Cinematographer: Norayr Kasper
Cinematographer: Paul Sarossy
Actor: Bruce Greenwood
Actor: Mia Kirshner
Actor: Elias Koteas
Actor: Don McKellar
Actor: Victor Garber
Actor: Jack Blum
Actor: Billy Merasty
Actor: Damon D'Oliveira
Actor: Peter Krantz
Actor: Calvin Green
Actor: David Hemblen
Actor: Sarah Polley
Actor: Maury Chaykin
Actor: Jennifer Dale
Actor: Armen Kokorian
Actor: Gerard Parkes
Actor: Gabrielle Rose
Actor: Jacqueline Samuda
Actor: Arthur Sarkissian
Actor: Aidan Tierney
Actor: Arsinée Khanjian
Actor: Selma Keklikian
Actor: Jeanne Sabourin
Actor: Rose Sarkisyan
Actor: Vasag Baghboudarian
Actor: David MacKay
Actor: Hrant Alianak
Actor: Ian Holm
Actor: Peter Donaldson
Actor: Brooke Johnson
Actor: Tom McCamus
Actor: Stephanie Morgenstern
Actor: Earl Pastko
Actor: Alberta Watson
Actor: Ashot Adamyan
Actor: Atom Egoyan
Actor: Michelle Bellerose
Actor: Natalia Jasen
Actor: Susan Hamann
Actor: Patrick Tierney
Actor: Berj Fazlian
Actor: Sirvart Fazlian
Actor: Margaret Loveys
Actor: Thomas Tierney
Actor: Phil Rash
Actor: Paul Babiak
Actor: Michael McManus
Actor: Tony Nardi
Actor: Patricia Collins