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Title: Trust (1990)
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| Adrienne Shelly | ... | Maria Coughlin | |
| Martin Donovan | ... | Matthew Slaughter | |
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Rebecca Nelson | ... | Jean Coughlin (as Merritt Nelson) |
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John MacKay | ... | Jim Slaughter |
| Edie Falco | ... | Peg Coughlin | |
| Gary Sauer | ... | Anthony | |
| Matt Malloy | ... | Ed | |
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Suzanne Costollos | ... | Rachel |
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Jeff Howard | ... | Robert |
| Karen Sillas | ... | Nurse Paine | |
| Tom Thon | ... | Deli Man | |
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Hannah Sullivan | ... | Ruark Boss (as Patricia Sullivan) |
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Marko Hunt | ... | John Coughlin |
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Kathryn Mederos | ... | Factory Woman |
| Bill Sage | ... | John Bill | |
When high school dropout Maria Coughlin announces her pregnancy to her parents, her father drops dead on the floor. Her mother kicks her out of the house and her boyfriend dumps her, so Maria is left alone and homeless. This is when she meets Matthew Slaughter. Matthew is an educated high school graduate with a great talent for fixing electronic devices, but he can't hang on to a job because of his principled attitude towards quality. When Maria accepts Matthew's offer to help her, they begin to form a relationship with each other in which both of them begin to change. Written by Leon Wolters <wolters@strw.LeidenUniv.nl>
I first saw this film in 1990 while I was in college and I loved it. I watched it over and over on VHS. I told everyone that this was my favorite movie of all time and watched every Hal Hartley movie I could find. Last night I stumbled across Trust on Netflix Instant and I thought I'd check it out to see if this film that I was so passionate about when I was 20 years old held up over time or if the 40 year old me would find it silly or dated. To my surprise I was blown away all over again by how ridiculously great it is. The smart stylized dialog, the music, the starkness, the silences, the camera framing, all of the whacked out but fully human characters, Martin Donovan and Adrienne Shelly so young and beautiful. As the final, simple, beautiful, frame of the film disappeared and credits rolled I was left sitting on the couch in a state of shocked amazement at the effect this film still has on me. Hands down my favorite movie of all time!