The Plumber

Australian director Peter Weir (WITNESS) shows his directorial skill here by taking the flimsiest of material and turning it into a taut, tension-packed thriller, while getting in his jabs at hypocritical college-educated liberals. The premise is a simple one--Judy Morris, a married anthropologist living in a Sydney highrise, is psychologically terrorized by Ivar Kants, a plumber who invades her apartment and proceeds to drive her into a state of near-hysteria. Though neither Morris nor her university professor husband, Robert Coleby, called for a plumber, the disheveled Kants appears at their door, his gear in hand. A seemingly minor repair becomes a major project...