Trust the Man

ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION INFORMATION

Cinematographer Orr, Tim

Executive Producer Grasic, Marina

Executive Producer O'Neill, Evelyn

Film Editor Gilroy, John

Music Mansell, Clint

Producer Kimmel, Sidney

Producer Perell, Tim

Screenwriter Freundlich, Bart

Sound Kris, Andy

Sound Sarokin, William

Production Company Trust the Man LLC

Principal Cast Balaban, Bob

Principal Cast Barkin, Ellen

Principal Cast Broggy, Liam

Principal Cast Crudup, Billy

Principal Cast Duchovny, David

Principal Cast Gyllenhaal, Maggie

Principal Cast Mendes, Eva

Principal Cast Moore, Julianne

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TIFF NOTE

Trust the Man is an hilarious drama about the crazy things people will do for love. Bart Freundlich's latest film boasts a phenomenal cast - Julianne Moore, David Duchovny, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Billy Crudup, Ellen Barkin, Bob Balaban and Eva Mendes among them - in a fantastic romance for the twenty-first century. We are in present-day New York among the comfortably successful leisure class. Rebecca (Moore) is an actress; a little bit uptight to begin with, she is crushed to discover that her marriage may be falling apart. Her husband Tom (Duchovny), a die-hard porn addict, takes things one step further when he begins an affair, leaving long-suffering Rebecca to pick up the pieces of their relationship. Rebecca's brother Tobey (Crudup), meanwhile, is in a long-term relationship with Elaine (Gyllenhaal) that has begun to turn sour. Both couples are spoiled and bratty, to varying degrees, and years of secrets and lies have left them all filled with resentment. A wild flurry of adulterous encounters and trial separations, adventures in dating and even a bout of stalking ensue as the two desperate men realize they must do everything they possibly can - moral and immoral, legal and otherwise - to prove to their women that they deserve to be taken back. Throughout wild hijinks and heart-stopping tenderness, side-splitting humour and harrowing pathos, Trust the Man's cast is mesmerizing. Duchovny delivers the best performance of his film career while Moore - certainly among the most talented actresses of her generation - is as luminous as we have come to expect. And a scene in which Barkin's character Norah puts the moves on Gyllenhaal's Elaine is a perfectly executed, miniature comic masterpiece. Shot by acclaimed cinematographer Tim Orr (who shot Dan Harris's 2004 Gala presentation Imaginary Heroes and all of David Gordon Green's features), Trust the Man is an energetic and cutting work that calls to mind Woody Allen's Husbands and Wives and Annie Hall. Sure to be one of the most memorable date movies of the year, it is a spectacular ode to love and the distance we will go to get it - and to keep it.

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