exotica

Director: atom egoyan

Actor: bruce greenwood,elias koteas,don mckellar,mia kirshner

Data Published: Fri Oct 21 1994

Genres: Drama

Key Words: cult film,public nudity,protective male,haunted by the past,grief

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109759/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotica_(film)

Description: Exotica is a movie starring Bruce Greenwood, Elias Koteas, and Don McKellar. A man plagued by neuroses frequents the club Exotica in an attempt to find solace, but even there his past is never far away.

Plot: A tax auditor for Revenue Canada, Francis Brown, is a regular visitor to a Toronto strip club called Exotica. He always has Christina, an exotic dancer dressed in a schoolgirl uniform, give him a private dance. This inspires the jealousy of the club's DJ, Eric, Christina's former boyfriend who has also impregnated the club's owner, Zoe. While at the club, Francis pays his brother Harold's teenaged daughter, Tracey, to "babysit." However, Francis has no children left and the girl merely practices music alone until Francis returns and drives her home. Francis' relationship with Harold is strained, as Francis found out that Harold and Francis' wife were having an affair after she died in a car accident, which also left Harold a paraplegic. Francis' daughter was kidnapped and killed a few months before the accident, and he was one of the suspects but was later exonerated. These events have left a huge psychological scar on Francis. In his professional life, Francis is sent to Thomas Pinto's pet store to audit books of account pursuant to the suspicion that Thomas is profiting from the illegal import of rare bird species. Thomas has been smuggling hyacinth macaw eggs, and his operation is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Francis is eventually banned from Exotica when Eric manipulates him into touching Christina during one of her dances, which is against the rules of the club. Around the same time, Francis discovers illegal activities in Thomas' financial records, and blackmails Thomas to go to the club to learn Christina's feelings about Francis. In the process, Francis realizes Eric intentionally set out to get him banned and vows to kill him. Confronting Eric with a gun, Francis is defused when Eric reveals he and Christina were the ones who found the body of Francis' daughter. Christina also reveals to Thomas that she and Francis share a relationship of mutual dependency. In the past when she used to babysit his daughter, Francis would comfort her about her troubled life at home.