Trust

Name: Trust
Genre: Drama
Released: April 1, 2011
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 60

2011

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Millennium Entertainment | Release Date: April 1, 2011 | R

Summary: Clive Owen and Catherine Keener will star in this dark drama about the damaging effects an online sexual predator has on a family. Owen and Keener will play the parents of a 14-year-old girl who are stunned to discover she has been victimized by an adult who gained her trust posing as a teenager on a chat room. Newcomer Liana Liberato willClive Owen and Catherine Keener will star in this dark drama about the damaging effects an online sexual predator has on a family. Owen and Keener will play the parents of a 14-year-old girl who are stunned to discover she has been victimized by an adult who gained her trust posing as a teenager on a chat room. Newcomer Liana Liberato will play the daughter. (Millennium Films)

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Director: David Schwimmer

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 104 min

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Roger Ebert

Mar 31, 2011

David Schwimmer has made one of the year's best films: Powerfully emotional, yes, but also very perceptive. Read full review

Movieline Michelle Orange

Apr 3, 2011

One of the most chilling things about Trust is how well it lays out the grooming strategies used by expert predators. Read full review

Boxoffice Magazine Pete Hammond

Mar 30, 2011

With a sterling cast and an emotionally powerful performance from newcomer Liana Liberato, Trust packs a real dramatic punch. Read full review

Jeannette Catsoulis

Mar 31, 2011

The mantle of social relevance can be a heavy one, but Trust, a smooth drama about a girl's seduction and rape by a middle-aged Internet predator, is neither preachy nor hysterically overreaching. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Mar 31, 2011

His (Schwimmer) film deserves some attention for the remarkable performance from Liana Liberato as Annie. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Mar 31, 2011

Unfortunately, this well-acted cautionary tale is hampered by a lack of visual finesse and a script in need of a narrative rethink and a dialogue polish. Read full review

Eric Hynes

Mar 29, 2011

Schwimmer is so committed to telling grim truths about modern living (whither goes humanity in the age of Twitter and sexting?!?) that he abandons the film's tantalizing slide into B-movie exploitation. Read full review

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RanSBuzz

Sep 13, 2014

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Breathtaking and difficult to watch. I have had those problems as a gay teenager (Well, maybe a bit less) and after watching the film i was shocked to believe how blind i was to my actions. But the only thing that made "Trust" as an amazing film with a social statement was the use of "American Apparel", to show that the sexual models in the ads provide the wrong ideal of sex, romance and love in general.… Expand

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potatoes351

Jan 24, 2013

Trust tells the story of the Cameron family and their ordeal through the toughest point in their lives. On her 14th birthday the middle child Annie receives a laptop as a gift from her mother and father. After using several online chatrooms her and a 14 year old boy named Charlie begin toTrust tells the story of the Cameron family and their ordeal through the toughest point in their lives. On her 14th birthday the middle child Annie receives a laptop as a gift from her mother and father. After using several online chatrooms her and a 14 year old boy named Charlie begin to grow fond of each other, after agreeing to meet up with Charlie at the local mall Annie learns that Charlie is actually a middle aged man. Charlie takes Annie to a motel and asks her to model some underwear and then rapes her. After a worried friend of Annie alerts the authorities to what happened in that motel room the Cameron family slowly begins to fall apart with a depressed Annie in the middle of it all.
Trust is a heart-wrenching drama that is extremely well written, preformed and directed, a film that all young people should watch and an absolutely astounding film in its own right.… Expand