Trust

Name: Trust
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Released: July 26, 1991
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 67
Cast: Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan

1991

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Fine Line Features | Release Date: July 26, 1991 | R

Starring: Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan

Summary: Maria is a self-centered teenage suburban brat, until she gets pregnant by her un-loving quarterback boyfriend and gives her father a fatal heart attack. Matthew is a rowdy and disillusioned computer engineer with a vicious temper. Disowned by her devastated mom, dumped by her boyfriend, and shunned by her friends, Maria wanders the streetsMaria is a self-centered teenage suburban brat, until she gets pregnant by her un-loving quarterback boyfriend and gives her father a fatal heart attack. Matthew is a rowdy and disillusioned computer engineer with a vicious temper. Disowned by her devastated mom, dumped by her boyfriend, and shunned by her friends, Maria wanders the streets and bumps into Matthew. These two exiles fall in together and set out trying to become a normal, domestic, suburban couple. But these troubled lives evolve in unexpected ways and Maria grows into a responsible person that few conventional notions of "ordinary" can contain. (Possible Films)… Expand

Director: Hal Hartley

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy

Rating: R

Runtime: 107 min

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Joan Anderman

Hartley's spare dialogue cuts right to the characters' psyches; his terse, laconic style accentuates the everyday horror. [20 Sept 1991]

J. Hoberman

Trust never seems dated and, as a youth film, it may even be usefully pedagogic. [30 July 1991]

Caryn James

Though Mr. Hartley's films are richly detailed, there are no frills or grace notes. Such work risks being too blunt, but Trust comes through. Read full review

Desson Howe

Trust is always interesting. And always interesting, as someone once said, is always good. Read full review

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Long Island filmaker Hal Hartley progresses from his debut feature, The Unbelievable Truth to this bleak, off-center comedy about dysfunctional families in working class suburbia. Read full review

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Another fond sketch of losers from the down-scale version of Woody Allen. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Trust never lives up to its snappy opening. Everything is tongue-in-cheek here - yet it's never remotely clear what the point is or what's getting satirized. [16 Aug 1991]

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