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09/07/06
Trust the Man (2006)
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Reviews Counted:100
Fresh:28
Rotten:72
Average Rating:4.6/10
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.
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $1,466,103
Synopsis: A lighthearted meditation on the cares and commitments of adulthood, Bart Freundlich's rom-com drama is a witty, ultra-contemporary vision of urban love. Two Manhattan couples enjoy complicated... [More]
Starring: David Duchovny, Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup, Maggie Gyllenhaal
Director: Bart Freundlich
Reviews for Trust the Man
Trust me, a Woody Allen film it is not.
09/07/06
David Duchonvy and Julianne Moore make an engaging double-act and an undercurrent of droll humour keeps things zipping along quite amiably for the most part.
09/05/06
Freundlich's insights weave through the bathroom en route to the bedroom, (and) conversations almost always return to excrement.
09/02/06
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09/02/06
Top CriticYou know you're in trouble when an allegedly adult romantic comedy begins with a fart joke.
09/02/06
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.
09/01/06
I got more questions than laughs from the Manhattan romantic comedy from Bart Freundlich, who is clearly a Woody Allen wannabe.
09/01/06
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.
09/01/06
Trust the Man has some good laughs courtesy of its cast -- but they're basically papering over a script that's masquerading as urbane and trenchant, when it's really self-involved and didactic and more than a little foolish.
09/01/06
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.
09/01/06
The characters change personalities every time Freundlich gets an idea for a new gag, leading to bizarre, random behavior that is likely to inspire audience annoyance, rather than sympathy.
09/01/06
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.
09/01/06
A lot more smug and a lot less insightful than writer-director Bart Freundlich apparently assumes, and it's burdened even more by its surfeit of unsympathetic characters.
09/01/06
Far from perfect but still somewhat enjoyable, I suppose until Woody returns to making movies here, we'll have to settle for what we can get.
09/01/06
Freundlich wants a portrait of the non-committal man at play, but Crudup tends to act like he's in Scary Movie 5, and every new scene with him makes you want to grind your teeth to pebbles.
09/01/06
It's the worst of both worlds.
09/01/06
The project is defeated by a concept that is not very novel, a script that is not especially witty, direction that is neither sharp nor insightful and one-note characters that are simply not very interesting.
08/31/06
For people who enjoy watching smug, self-involved, upper-class New Yorkers complain about their problems, most of which are their own fault.
08/31/06
It has nothing new or remotely interesting to say about modern relationships.
08/31/06
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