Trust (1990)
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82% of critics liked it
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92% of users liked it
(4,949 ratings)
The unlikely relationship between a pregnant high school student and a brooding electronics repairman lies at the center of this droll comedy from writer-director Hal Hartley. Intelligent but unconventional, Maria (Adrienne Shelly) has more to worry about than her pregnancy, as her expectant state… More The unlikely relationship between a pregnant high school student and a brooding electronics repairman lies at the center of this droll comedy from writer-director Hal Hartley. Intelligent but unconventional, Maria (Adrienne Shelly) has more to worry about than her pregnancy, as her expectant state drives away her boyfriend and triggers a fatal heart attack in her father. Meanwhile, Matthew (Martin Donovan) has his own problems: an abusive father, a heightened sense of morality that prevents him from taking semi-lucrative television repair jobs, and a suicidal streak that causes him to carry around a potentially deadly grenade. The meeting of these troubled minds at first promises to be beneficial for both, but sours as they are forced to interact with each other's dysfunctional families. As in all of Hartley's pictures, the narrative is filtered through an amusingly detached sensibility that some may consider an acquired taste. ~ Judd Blaise, Rovi
- Directed By
- Hal Hartley
- Written By
- Hal Hartley
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- Jun 1, 1991 Wide
- On DVD
- Feb 20, 1992
- Studio
- Republic Pictures Home Video
Critic Reviews
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Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid
[An] astringently funny second feature.
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Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com
Reflecting idiosyncratic sensibility, Hal Hartley's families don't look like Hollywood or TV families: When a father calls his daughter a slut, and she slaps him, he drops dead.
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Derek Smith, Cinematic Reflections
A bold film that defies logic and the rules of screenwriting
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
It's Woody Allen with gentile instead of Jewish neurotic characters.
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Walter Chaw, Film Freak Central
Best comedy of the nineties
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Cast
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Adrienne Shelly
as Maria Coughlin
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Martin Donovan
as Matthew Slaughter
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Merritt Nelson
as Jean Coughlin
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John A. MacKay
as Jim Slaughter
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Edie Falco
as Peg Coughlin
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Marko Hunt
as John Coughlin
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Chris Cooke
as Diner Guy
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Matt Malloy
as Ed
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Bill Sage
as John Bill
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Gary Sauer
as Anthony
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Nena Segal
as Aunt Fay
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Karen Sillas
as Nurse Paine
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Patricia Sullivan
as Ruark Boss
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Tom Thon
as Deli Man
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Pamela Stewart
as Mrs. Blech
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Jeff Howard
as Robert
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