The Benefactor comes across a bit like Morpheus at first (or else a Satanic version of Dean Stockwell’s “Quantum Leap” character), appearing at the site of a terrible car accident, where he explains to Kevin how all those realities work. It’s not immediately clear what the multiverse idea has to do with that, apart from offering a dramatic shortcut to deprive Kevin of everything that was going well in his life before. Writer-director Brock Heasley doesn’t approach the film as a direct adaptation, but instead focuses on the underlying lesson so many take from Job: It’s normal to question why a benevolent deity would allow people to suffer, and yet the character serves as an example for remaining steadfast in the face of such trials. “The Shift” is billed as a contemporary retelling of the book of Job, in which God tests a man who has everything he could want by stripping him of his family, friends and property, but still the man does not turn his back on his creator.

That’s where the movie’s other big biblical connection comes in.

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