TIFF 2010: Creepy trailer for David Schwimmer’s TRUST with Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, and Viola Davis
Our friends over at The Playlist have been very quick on getting TIFF news up and here's the latest: the trailer for David Schwimmer's TRUST, starring Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, and Viola Davis. The plot of this film seems pretty creepy and odd for a TIFF film, but here it is (in my own words): a high school gal gets the unfortunate luck of meeting an online predator (Chris Henry Coffey) in real life and winds up a victim of molestation. Her parents are played by Clive Owen and Catherine Keener. Like any father would do, Clive's Daddy goes on a fast track to nail down the sick person who did this. Viola Davis plays the girl's therapist.
This is a new spin on Scwhimmer's directoring career, as the last thing we've seen him do was RUN, FATBOY, RUN. I'm really hoping drama works in his favor. Hit the break to see the trailer and official synopsis.
Official Synopsis:
Annie (Liana Liberato) meets a boy on the internet. He’s cute, he’s her age and he really seems to like her. Her parents have no idea. But then the boy confesses that he’s actually a little older than Annie. Still, her parents are in the dark. By the time this “boy” lures Annie to meet him, she is so smitten with the idea of him that his true identity barely matters. Annie’s parents (Clive Owen and Catherine Keener) find themselves facing every parent’s nightmare.Trust is a potent drama that cuts to the core of contemporary family life. It marks a major breakthrough for David Schwimmer. After directing a string of Friends episodes, a movie for television and the feature Run, Fatboy, Run (which premiered at the Festival in 2007), Schwimmer has emerged as a confident director skilled at handling risky dramatic material with both sensitivity and precision.Although the subject of online child predators is something audiences have grown familiar with,Trust consistently rises above expectations. Credit goes to Schwimmer and writer Andy Bellin. Here, genre conventions are turned on their head as the film resists predictability to balance nail-biting suspense with heartrending drama.
Owen and Keener are perfectly cast as the grieving parents who react in profoundly different ways, and Viola Davis delivers another groundbreaking turn as the victim’s therapist. But most impressive are the tour-de-force performances by lesser-known actors Liberato and Chris Henry Coffey. In addition to holding her own alongside an all-star ensemble cast, Liberato’s slow-burning self-realization and climactic breakdown are incredibly raw and authentic. As the architect behind the desolation, Coffey gives a shockingly convincing performance that is equally perverse and plausible.
Trust is a harrowing and cautionary tale that should be considered recommended viewing for parents, and for their teenaged children.
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