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TRUST  

Director: Hal Hartley
Year: 1990
Runtime: 107 min.
Country: USA/UK
Language: English
Color: Color
Format: 16mm

Maria (Adrienne Shelly) is a self-centered teenage suburban brat, until she gets pregnant by her un-loving quarterback boyfriend and gives her father a fatal heart attack. Matthew (Martin Donovan) is a rowdy and disillusioned computer engineer with a vicious temper. Disowned by her devastated mom, dumped by her boyfriend, and shunned by her friends, Maria wanders the streets and bumps into Matthew. These two exiles fall in together and set out trying to become a normal, domestic, suburban couple. But these troubled lives evolve in unexpected ways and Maria grows into a responsible person that few conventional notions of "ordinary" can contain. This hilarious and heartwarming film consolidated Hal Hartley's reputation as one of America's most important and beloved independent filmmakers.


"Hartley confirms his promise as a gifted comic mannerist. Trust is an exceptional film."
— Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"Strikingly original. Hartley is truly someone to get excited about. His movies aren't like any you've ever seen before." — Hal Hinson, The Washington Post


 

 
showtime
Tuesday, August 23 at 7 pm
location
THE GREEN ROOM
144 West Street (across from the Comstock Hotel)
admission
$6 general / $4 GBFS members