Product Details

• Actors: Ellen Barkin, Francine Beers, David Duchovny, Tom Riis Farrell, Hollis Granville
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: February 6, 2007
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000KX0HGY
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #51,428 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

For a sex comedy, Bart Freundlich's fourth feature Trust the Man takes many of its cues from 1980s-era Woody Allen, but is neither as sexy nor as funny as intended. It's the tale of two couples. Rebecca (Julianne Moore, Freundlich's real-life wife) is an actress. Her husband, Tom (David Duchovny, Moore's Evolution co-star), is a stay-at-home dad, much like Patrick Wilson's character in the considerably darker Little Children. The Manhattan dwellers have two kids. Fellow New Yorker Elaine (Maggie Gyllenhaal), an aspiring author, lives with Rebecca's brother, Tobey (Billy Crudup, sporting an ill-advised goatee), a sports writer. They've been together for seven years. Elaine is ready for marriage and a baby; Toby, not so much. Both men have roving eyes, Tom for single mother Pamela (Dagmara Dominczyk) and Tobey for ex-girlfriend Faith (Eva Mendes), a newlywed. Rebecca and Elaine, in their sincerity, may be more sympathetic, but all they ever seem to talk about is their unsatisfactory sex lives. Naturally, something has to give and it does--for all four. On the downside, Trust the Man finds Freundlich in a bit of a holding pattern. In retrospect, domestic drama The Myth of Fingerprints, Freundlich's first film, is still the writer/director's best. Though James LeGros and Duchovny pal Garry Shandling provide amusing cameos, the main reason to catch Trust the Man is for Duchovny himself in his most fully realized role since the inimitable Agent Fox Mulder--oddly likable despite his many faults. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Suprising realistic for a chick flick, September 10, 2006

By	Brian C "Another over opinionated mammal" (Kansas CIty, MO) - See all my reviews

Wity writing, and characters that are allowed to have some flaws made this one of the first chick flicks that did not make me want to vomit. Heck I actually enjoined it.... for the most part. It does end with the usual formualic, come to jesus ending. But over all still enjoyable.

The creative funny backenforth give plenty of entertainment while the storyline sets it self up.

The characters are not the usual black and white images of perfection or sleazy bastreds which makes them much more relateable. As well as making the story seem less absurd.

While probably unintentional the movie also provides interesting examples of the differences between the way men and women communicate. The men always tiring to fix the things the women complain about instead of just listening, and the women getting upset when the men do not just intuitively know what they want even though they never say.

All in all the first chick flick/ feel good movie that not only did not make me want to vomit, but that I actually enjoined in years.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lighten up folks, it's not that bad!, February 9, 2007

By	E. Karasik (Washington, DC United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

With all this talent in the mix, it would have been nice if this film had risen above mediocrity, but I still found it reasonably entertaining. There are a few laugh-out-loud scenes (my fave was Julianne Moore's passive-aggressive compliance with her husband's request that she narrate a porn video) and some clever theater references, and the rest is a string of bland and/or saccharine relationship cliches, but the cast is very attractive and I enjoyed the indie sound track.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 2.5 stars out of 4, January 24, 2009

By	One-Line Film Reviews (Ann Arbor) - See all my reviews

The Bottom Line:

As one of the three or four people in America who saw this movie in theatres, I am qualified to say that Trust the Man is really not worth spending money on; however, it should be said that while the film is forgettable and formulaic, it also offers enough laughs that you could do worse if one of your friends suggests watching it.