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Sales Rank: 4674
Category: Video
Actors: Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Merritt Nelson, John Mackay, Edie Falco
Director: Hal Hartley
Publisher: Republic Pictures
Studio: Republic Pictures
Manufacturer: Republic Pictures
Label: Republic Pictures
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Running Time: 107 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 630227883X
UPC: 017153420531
EAN: 9786302278835
ASIN: 630227883X
Release Date: June 23, 1995
Theatrical Release Date: 1991
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A much-loved cult favorite often overlooked by the mainstream, Trust is a hip, witty film that stretches the definition of a "romantic comedy." Hal Hartley's quirky, minimalist masterpiece--miles ahead of such later attempts as Amateur and Henry Fool--comes from the same school of offbeat character studies that launched better-known directors Jonathan Demme (Married to the Mob, Silence of the Lambs) and Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, The Last Days of Disco). Trust, like more conventional romances, tells the story of a blossoming relationship between two souls who are lost without each other--but the resemblance to ordinary love stories ends there. Matthew Slaughter (The Opposite of Sex's Martin Donovan) is a lovable, overeducated misanthrope (he always carries a hand grenade, as he says, "just in case..."). He's matched brilliantly with spoiled ex-cheerleader Maria Coughlin (Adrienne Shelly), a pregnant high-school dropout going through a full-blown existential crisis, largely because her allowance is being cut off. As their lives intersect, they are united by their bitter cynicism--twin pessimists condemned by their dysfunctional families and the shallow suburbanites around them ... and, despite their best efforts, destined for true romance. If you never thought brutally dry humor could be laugh-out-loud funny, then this is one movie you need to see. --Grant Balfour
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 Beautiful and Original August 10, 2007
The story centers around 2 people that fall in love and their dysfunctional family lives. Matthew, a gifted 30 something computer engineer and Maria, a spoiled naive teenager. Maria's boyfriend ends up getting her pregnant and not wanting anything to do with her, she drops out of school, her mother is controlling, her fathers dead and shes basically hit rock bottom. Matthew has similiar problems with his father. His fathers abusive and Matthew has somewhat of a suicial streak. During all this, These two end up stumbling upon eachother and eventually falling in love...though its not your typical courtship. Its more of a reluctant meeting of the minds. 2 misfits who just happened to come across eachother at the perfect time. They soon learn a lot about eachother while confronting their inner demons and issues while 'changing' eachother for the better.
What makes the film good is not so much the plot but the interaction between the characters. It shares a similar theme/humor with the Todd Solondz movie 'Happiness', except this one has a more serious vibe about it... Serious yet humorous. Its one of those movies you really can't categorize. It's hard to explain in words what makes this movie so good, you just have to watch it. Definitely worth the watch.. different, original & heavy on the irony and dry humor. Highly Recommended.
 Respect + Admiration + Trust = Love June 24, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
"this is a story about sex, love, tv, and...'an intoxicating romance'!"
(that's what the cover of my tape says) :-)
i saw this movie before it was released to the public, i have a promo screener copy that scrolls writing across the bottom of the screen all the way through the movie...
but i enjoy this movie so much, that i don't even notice the annoying scrolling...
this is, sort of, one of those strange, satirical, dark comedies, yet such brutal honesty reflecting life, that...well...
makes ya cry and laugh at the same time.
just love mathew slaughter...reminds me of myself back in the same time period...the seriousness, the internal anger, the dangerousness(is that a word?) and the sincerity all at once.
i think this movie works best when viewed alone or with a close partner or spouse...it doesn't quite work in a busy room or with friends over...
of course, extremely sincere individuals will probably love this movie, while ones who are sincerely "not", may absolutely hate it.
just love it when "cookie-[....]" (anthony) gets tossed around.
......................[(of the face)]..........................
(that wasn't a bad word, hard to believe they had to edit it)
anyway...
i did not know that "maria" or a. shelly had been murdered by an illegal 'till i read these reviews just now...tragic...sad...
gives me more of that "internal anger"...makes me want to change my name to mathew slaughter and join the border patrol.
wake.
True Trust April 11, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have always loved this movie. The recent passing of Adrienne Shelly at the the hands of an illegal immigrant shook me deeply. A needless waste to Anarchism and it's screed. Adrienne Shelly was beautiful and a part of Americana that must not be missed. Hal Hartly is the maker of this and other great American films.
so where's the DVD? November 7, 2006
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
Strangely, at the time I write this, the DVD is not available in USA. Perhaps the added publicity given to Adrienne Shelley's acting career after her brutal murder will cause this to be rectified quickly.
Shelley and Donovan had hipness and chemistry and a great style. It's a minimalist film, but it lingers with you.
Watching Hal Hartley's Trust for the second time 15 years later is exhilarating and somewhat disappointing. The characters are contrived and overintellectualized, and the conflict between parent and child here doesn't ring true (it seems to have the usual bitterness of college sophomores). Also the gestures and dialogue are stagy and slightly pretentious. Never mind that; you're missing the point. The film is not aiming at realism; it's aiming at conveying the emotional turbulence of young adult struggling to break free from the orbit of their parents.
Plot and incident flow naturally and often end up in unexpected places. There's lots of surprises, many of them comic. The film is about throwing characters together and watching how they react. The moment where the girl messes up the kitchen makes you wonder, how will the father react? The dialogue (reminiscient of Stoppard or Mamet) is curt and enigmatic and challenging. And always entertaining. People are learning from one another and changing..possibly improving. The movie Trust is less about plot than a certain attitude toward life--how much trust should we place in family, friends, peers? People don't have secrets or histories; they have metaphysical complaints and frustrated dreams. Martin Donovan and Adrienne Shelly are not only young charismatic actors, they act and react with subtlety and focus. Yet both have chemistry with one another and manage to sustain this intensity without going too far (Kudos to Mr. Hartley for not aiming
for sympathy or making motives too transparent). Donovan seems adept at playing characters about to boil under, but manage to hold it in (He's at his best in the film Surviving Desire,).
Adrienne, that moment when you put on your glasses at the end was a great cinematic moment. Hopeful, assertive and maybe even cocky. Your fans will always have that moment to remember you by.
If you liked Trust, you'd also enjoy: Hartley's Surviving Desire (although it's more arty), Jill Sprecher's 13 Conversations about One Thing and her earlier film, Clockwatchers).
Trust March 30, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Strange but interesting saga of a young high school girl (played by Adrienne Shelly), who at the beginning of the movie is pregnant. She leaves home after having a falling out with her father, encounters the disheartened Rachel (who may be a babynapper), and then meets Matthew (Martin Donovan), a mechanical genius who can't stand the shoddy workmanship in today's products and who carries a hand grenade with him just in case he wants to commit suicide. They help each other out, especially regarding their sadistic parents, and decide to get married - which doesn't quite work out, thanks to her plotting mother and her deciding to have an abortion anyway.
The tone and presentation of the characters and their actions are very unemotional and deadpan - sort of like RAISING ARIZONA, but without the comic punch. In fact, everything in the movie is so aloof and detached that we almost begin to think the director (Hal Hartley) doesn't care what the audience thinks: it's as if he can't be bothered to have his actors make their points meaningful. It distances us too much from the characters: if they don't care, why should we? Despite this take-it-or-leave-it attitude, there is some sharp dialogue throughout the proceedings. But the movie feels confined by an emotional straightjacket that it just can't break out of.
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