Trust the Man2006
Trust the Man (2006)
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Critic Consensus: What aspires to be a sophisticated, unconventional romantic comedy turns out to be a contrivance-filled pretender to other, better films of its genre.
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Cast
as Tom
as Rebecca
as Tobey
as Elaine
as Dante
as Faith
as Pamela
as Norah
as Goren
as Jasper
as Usher
as Rand
as David
as Dr. Beekman
as Baby Maggie
as Baby Maggie
as Terminex Guy
as Elaine's Boss
as Crazy Hair Driver
as Francis, the Director
as Shannon
as Maria, the Babysitter
as Newspaper Vendor
as Waiter
as Cosmos
as Sex Addicts Leader
as Misplaced Sex Addict
as Cynical New Yorker
as Woman Who Can't Get Enough
as John, Preferably Coarse
as Gordon, Bitter Sex Addict
as Rocker at the Bar
as Amis
as Dinner Guest
as Lincoln Center Fan
as Assistant Stage Manager
as Stage Manager
as Stage Actor
as Audience Member
as Audience Member
as Old Lady
as Older Maggie
as Flight Attendant
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Critic Reviews for Trust the Man
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I saw this at a festival and hated it, then sat through it again a year later and decided it wasn't so bad, aside from the god-awful ending.
It's a pity, because few romcoms pull off the basically sympathetic mining of personal vanities and social embarrassment that the film manages in its opening hour.
Freundlich's outstanding cast (including Garry Shandling, Eva Mendes, Ellen Barkin, Bob Balaban and James LeGros) -- his best since 1997's The Myth of Fingerprints -- glosses over miscalculations with sheer star power.
Two couples in trouble, one with kids, another considering them. Writer-director Bart Freundlich's challenge is to stress them and find a resolution to their conflicts in ways that aren't banal, predictable or witless. And he settles for one out of three.
The fact that Freundlich tries to put some thoughtful commentary into a formulaic story is commendable, but in the end either his faith wavers or the studio intervened.
I wish the film were true to itself and its quartet of puzzled, struggling lovers; their collapse into sitcom idiocy felt uncomfortably close to betrayal.
Audience Reviews for Trust the Man
Two couples encounter various difficulties with commitment and fidelity. It takes an awful long time for this film to get started; it should be used in film classes to show how not to do exposition. During the first act of the film, I wasn't sure how I was supposed to feel about these characters -- whether they were to be taken seriously or merely seen as farcical caricatures. But once the film establishes the various problems affecting these relationships, I think it's fairly entertaining. Even Julianne Moore, whom I hate, is tolerable. I especially liked the scene in which dinner guests overhear Elaine bragging about her new beau's manhood to her old beau. And there's a great two-shot in the third act of David Duchovny and Billy Crudup in tuxedos looking as though they're ready for anything but nonetheless clueless. The ending is, of course, cliche, and some of the supporting characters are too over-the-top to be believed (I'm looking at you Goren [Glenn Fitzgerald] and Dante [James LeGros]), but overall, though I have no idea why it's called Trust the Man, Trust the Man delivers a few laughs for the light-hearted fare it eventually attempts to be.
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i laughed like three times at this flick. the rest of it was nearly unbearable. it began well, for about 5 minutes, then turned into a pointless film full of unlikeable characters, then the end felt like some horrible teen comedy starring adults. truly pointless.
Super Reviewer
Julianne Moore is good but the movie is just sort of blah.
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