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Trust
The Man
In
this ensemble piece, two couples are questioning their
relationships and futures with the ones they love.
Househusband and former ad executive Tom
(David Duchovny) is married to actress Rebecca (Julianne Moore). She has been rebuffing his
advances claiming
she just needs some space, while his carnal needs seem to be growing to
unhealthy levels. Meanwhile,
Elaine
(Maggie Gyllenhaal) has been dating Tobey (Billy Crudup) for seven
years and is
ready to get married and have a baby, but he seems too childish and
afraid to
take that next step.
Will these two couples find a
way to make it work?
A movie about Manhattan
yuppies whining about their love lives could have been a torturous
affair, but
Trust The Man is one of the funniest movies of the year.
Writer/director Bart Freundlich (Moore’s husband) avoids
the typical sappy twists and turns and emotional moments some actors
might want
to interject, and delivers wacky, funny, hilarious moments that keep
the plot
moving along, while also entertaining you.
However, it’s not just the
obvious jokes being told by the
lead actors in a scene, but subtle events happening in the background
or a bit
player delivering a wicked one-liner.
It
makes for a much more interesting movie to watch, especially as we
follow the
path of the two relationships, but don’t get all that heavy
into the details,
or, at least, it doesn’t feel that way.
This approach gives talented cast members like Bob
Balaban, Garry
Shandling and Ellen Barkin memorable moments, without a great deal of
useless
scenes.
The movie has plenty of great acting
performances, but it
was Crudup who surprised me the most.
He
disappeared so deeply into this character, I spent the entire movie
racking my
brain trying to figure out who he was even though I knew he was in the
movie! Crudup is so
natural and funny
that it was like watching a truly lost and childish man on the screen
instead
of an accomplished actor.
Sometimes, it feels like some
key subplots may have been
chopped, like a possible affair between Moore and a young stage actor
played by
Justin Bartha, and the plot never seems to drive the movie (jokes do),
but
Trust The Man is an entertaining, funny time.
3 Waffles
(Out Of 4)
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2006 - WaffleMovies.com
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