Trust

United States, United Kingdom

1990

107 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
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PROD Hal Hartley, Ted Hope, Bruce Weiss

CAST Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Bill Sage, Karen Sillas, Edie Falco, John MacKay, Matt Malloy

MUSIC The Great Outdoors, Philip Reed

Sundance (Dramatic Competition): Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, Toronto, San Francisco, Edinburgh (New Directors), Stockholm (American Independents), Mar del Plata (Retrospective)

Synopsis

Maria Coughlin, a rebellious teenager, announces her pregnancy to her parents. Her father drops dead on the floor. Her mother kicks her out of the house and her boyfriend dumps her, so Maria is left alone and homeless. Maria then meets Matthew Slaughter, an educated but cynical and violent genius in electronics. Maria accepts Matthew’s offer to help her. As the relationship evolves between them, they slowly find out how complicated it is to live a “normal” life.

Director

Hal Hartley

Hal Hartley, Jr. (born November 3, 1959) is an American film director, writer, and pioneer of the independent film movement, who was educated at the State University of New York at Purchase.

Hartley graduated and moved to New York City in 1984. He shot his feature film debut, The Unbelievable Truth, in 1988 and remained extremely active in the years that followed; producing feature films like Trust, Simple Men, Amateur, and Flirt. Unlike most feature film directors, Hartley also continued making short films, many of which have been collected in a DVD anthology.

His films were often noted for dialogue that was simultaneously philosophical and humorous. In the early 90s, he often composed and performed the music for his films under the pseudonym Ned Rifle. —wikipedia

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Deniz

3Feb12

Matthew: I respect and admire you. Maria: Isn’t that love? Matthew: No, that’s respect and admiration. I think that’s better than love. Maria: How? Matthew: When people are in love they do all sorts of crazy things. They get jealous, they lie, they cheat. They kill themselves. They kill each other.

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Michel Poiccard

6Jan12

Maria: Your job is making you boring and mean. Matthew: My job is making me a respectable member of society.

JP. Schmidt

15Jul11

I drew a real personal connection with this film. Around a hour after finishing it, I felt the impact it really had on me and how much more heightened it had made my feelings and thoughts of the day. I appreciate most works of art that can manipulate what is in me already to do that.

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