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Writer (WGA):
Bart Freundlich (written by)
Release Date:
1 September 2006 (USA)
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Plot:
After all the drama, cheating, and trial separations, two men (Crudup, Duchovny) fight to save their respective relationships. full summary | add synopsis
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Psychiatrist
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Lizard
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Rock Concert
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Journalist
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1 nomination
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(7 articles)
tMF Oscarwatch: The Julianne Moore Oscar Saga continues + Amanda Seyfried shows some guts!
(From The Movie Fanatic. 15 September 2009, 6:03 AM, PDT)
tMF Oscarwatch: The Julianne Moore Oscar Saga continues + Amanda Seyfried shows some guts!
(From The Movie Fanatic. 15 September 2009, 6:03 AM, PDT)
(From The Movie Fanatic. 15 September 2009, 6:03 AM, PDT)
tMF Oscarwatch: The Julianne Moore Oscar Saga continues + Amanda Seyfried shows some guts!
(From The Movie Fanatic. 15 September 2009, 6:03 AM, PDT)
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | David Duchovny | ... | Tom |
 | Julianne Moore | ... | Rebecca |
 | Sascha Gillen | ... | Baby Maggie |
| Brianna Gillen | ... | Baby Maggie |
| Liam Broggy | ... | David |
 | Scott Sowers | ... | TerminEx Guy |
 | Billy Crudup | ... | Tobey |
 | Maggie Gyllenhaal | ... | Elaine |
 | Garry Shandling | ... | Dr. Beekman |
 | Sarah Knowlton | ... | Elaine's Boss |
 | Brian Tarantina | ... | Crazy Hair Driver |
 | Justin Bartha | ... | Jasper Bernard |
| David Greenspan | ... | Francis, the Director |
 | Dagmara Dominczyk | ... | Pamela |
| Caroline Schlobohm | ... | Shannon |
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Rated R for language and sexual content.
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USA:103 min | Canada:103 min (Toronto International Film Festival) | Argentina:103 min
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USA:R |
Ireland:16 |
UK:15 |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Germany:o.Al. |
Finland:K-7 |
Argentina:13 |
Argentina:Atp |
Australia:M |
Portugal:M/12 |
Brazil:12 |
Peru:14 |
South Korea:18
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The children of star Julianne Moore and writer/director Bart Freundlich make their movie debuts in "Trust the Man". Caleb Freundlich plays Cosmos, Pamela's son who punches David Duchovny and Liv Freundlich plays Moore's daughter Maggie in the final scenes.
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Anachronisms: In the scene transitioning to the Christmas holidays, a shot of Central Park is shown with Christo and Jeanne-Claude's The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005 in the park. However, this display was unfurled on February 12, 2005 - after the holidays were over.
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Movie Connections:
Spoofs "Saturday Night Live" (1975)
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Closer
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One of the significant tragedies in modern film is the coupling of one of our most powerful actresses with an insipid filmmaker.
Here, we have her placed in a film he made, playing an actress with an insipid husband — a writer. He has a friend who is there simply to say goofier things, and thereby make the film appealing. As with all date movies, the separated couple is reunited by a public confession of love that is accepted (and happily ever after...). In this case, that confession literally happens at a play Julianne's character is in. So there's the simple, mechanical narrative fold.
As a quirky, inconsequential film, its not so bad, about in the middle of its cohort. Our goofy pair, anchored by Billy Crudup who is observed by Gyllenhaal (and in another position, Shandling). But no one really comes to film simply to tread water in the flood of desperate romance. We come for some advance. With films that advertise themselves as trivial, a trivial advance will do.
Nothing here does that, and because the centerpiece is a woman who is patiently wasting her life, the message is clear.
So I will recommend that you not watch this unless you are prepared to get depressed.
Ted's Evaluation -- 1 of 3: You can find something better to do with this part of your life.