Trust the Man

2005

Action / Comedy / Drama / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 29% · 102 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 35% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 5.7/10 10 8816 8.8K

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Plot summary

Overachieving actress Rebecca must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad Tom. While Rebecca's slacker brother Tobey can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, Elaine. As both relationships spin out of control, the two couples embark on a quest to rediscover the magic and romance of falling in love in New York.


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Billy Crudup as Tobey
Julianne Moore as Rebecca Pollack
Ellen Barkin as Norah
David Duchovny as Tom Pollack
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by tomhbrand 5 / 10

Trust The Man

This film seems to seek only to be exactly what it seems to be on first viewing, and manages that superbly. And all this is is just one more 'relationship' movie, showing the problems faced in modern life by 'trendy' couples in New York.

The film portrays two couples living in New York, a brother and sister and their respective partners, who have the typical problems with each other. One couple has Julianne Moore and David Duchovny in a marriage gone stale (unimaginatively shown through the medium of having Moore's character repetitively refuse her husband sex), and the other has Maggie Gyllenhaal desperate to further both her career and relationship with a boyfriend who is terrified to commit, apparently because of a fear of dying.

Not exactly original is it. Throughout the movies I just found it to be simply leaning on the stable stereotypes and ideas of every other film of this genre before it, but with little or no effort to flesh out the characters to an interesting level, something vital in a film of this kind. None of the characters in this piece are interesting, and you just cannot bring yourself to care about them. I really expected more from Duchovny and Moore, who we know can do this sort of thing well if they try, and the only one here who vaguely manages to come out of this well is Gyllenhaal, who somehow manages to work through the material and give Elaine a level of naivety and a hope to improve on her lot to make us root for her.

This is where I felt the movie, like many others like it, missed the point; these characters have problems, they're not happy and their relationships are falling apart but they don't seem to want to bother doing anything about it. In fact 'helping yourself' is actively mocked. Tom and Rebecca go to marriage counselling once a year as a joke to wind up their guidance councillor. When Tom joins a sex addicts group (apparently if you're wife refuses to have sex with you ever, and tells you this to your face, if you still want sex yourself it means you're a sex addict. No one wants sex once you have children! What a freak!) we just get shown an amusing group of weirdos with stupid and amusing fetishes involving power tools.

What this shows to me is just one more love story of how New York (once again shown as a seeming example of the epitome of American society) drains people and makes them miserable and alone. How everyone is miserable, but trying to improve your lot is pointless and laughable, so just get over it and you'll get the inevitable happy ending where both couples get what they wanted from the start, not because they've actually changed or started liking each other, but because we've got the end of the film and need to wrap it up for that cathartic happy ending that the audience wants. The moral: don't bother trying to change your life if it's not working, it'll all work out in the end if you pretend your happy.

Reviewed by blanche-2 4 / 10

not very good

I'm not really sure why I had this film on my Netflix list, except that I like David Duchovny and Julianne Moore. They can and have done much better than this.

Duchovny and Moore play Tom and Rebecca Pollack - he's a house husband, having just quit advertising, and she's a well-known actress rehearsing a play in New York. Her brother Tobey (Billy Crudup) is in a long-term relationship with a fledgling writer Elaine (Maggie Gyllenhaal), and they're all best friends.

Tom wants sex more than Rebecca does; Elaine wants to get married and have a baby, but Tobey doesn't seem ready. He seems overly concerned with the fact that they're all going to die someday.

Tom drifts into a relationship with a divorced mother of one of his son's friends, and Tobey and Elaine finally break up. The movie concerns them all trying to find their way back to one another. I found it pretty dismal.

There are some good scenes, two in particular: the beginning of a romantic evening when Rebecca, on her last night of eating carbohydrates, stuffs a huge piece of cake down her throat; and Tom's confessions, true and not true, to a sex addicts group. Both very good.

There are several cameos in the film, one by Garry Shandling and one by Ellen Barkin, as well as some recognizable New York actors. The New York location shots are all great, some taking place in my old neighborhood.

This is a good cast stuck with a weak script and shallow characters. They do the best they can, but it's an uneasy mix of drama and comedy. The ending is lame. Disappointing.

Reviewed by Boba_Fett1138 7 / 10

Simply good and watchable for what it is.

To be honest, I had no idea what to expect from this movie and as it started I had no idea which direction it was heading to. At first it really seemed like the movie wasn't going to do anything good or interesting with its story but once it does, the movie gets a quite good one to watch, within its genre and I simply really enjoyed it for what is was.

What I like about this movie is that it never becomes a melodramatic or sappy one, like movies like this often tend to do. The situations and characters within this movie are being kept mostly real and so are all of their emotions and feelings. This is the foremost reason why I kept liking this movie throughout. I liked were the story was going and the overall message of it.

Yes, it still also really is a comedy though, so some of the situations and characters are still being exaggerated for comedy effect. But just like its drama, the comedy never pushes it too far, until its end, when the movie suddenly becomes more goofy. But overall I still really liked the balance between the comedy and the drama of this movie.

Thing that also truly keeps this movie interesting and good to watch is its cast. It really has a surprisingly good cast in it. Julianne Moore, Maggie Gyllenhaal, David Duchovny, Billy Crudup, Ellen Barkin, Bob Balaban and Eva Mendes all in one movie. That's quite amazing actually for such a low-key movie as this one. Every actor was fine within their role but the one that stood out most to me was David Duchovny, who is trying so hard the last couple of years to become a legit actor after his "X-Files" fame. He had an hard time getting rid of his image but if he keeps on playing like he does in this movie, he should be alright.

I can still see all of this movie its flaws, such as some story issues and some misplaced comedy at times but as an overall experience, I surprisingly liked this movie and I honestly liked it better than just the average genre attempt.

7/10

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