Heavily breaking from the funny-man image that sees him associated with only comedy, the next film from David Schwimmer (a man known across the globe simply as Ross from Friends) ditches the humour, and focusses on an extremely serious and ever-growing problem that’s unfortunately beginning to touch more and more lives; child abuse.
Schwimmer’s new movie; titled Trust; follows a 14-year-old girl who’s given a brand new laptop for her birthday, and soon uses it to begin chatting with someone she believes to be a likeminded high-school volleyball player from across the country; until after months of chatting, phone calls, and photo exchanges, she decides to meet her pen-pal, and quickly learns he’s not who he claimed to be.
Trust deals with the fallout from these events; as the young girl crosses boundaries she probably knows she shouldn’t cross, alters her life for good, and leaves her once-doting parents struggling to support her, as her actions shatter their lives, and leave them in stunned disbelief.
15-year-old Liana Liberato (The Last Sin Eater) stars as the naive young girl, with Clive Owen (Children of Men) and Catherine Keener (The 40 Year Old Virgin) picking up the roles of the parents, and Viola Davis (Disturbia) rounding out the cast as a therapist who tries to help the broken family unit.
Despite doing well on the film festival circuit, Trust is still without an official release date, although that is bound to change soon; seen as how its official trailer has now been released (and can be seen below), and the fact that even if it plays out like a Hallmark drama, its melodramatic tale delivers such a poignant and cautionary tale, it should almost be mandatory viewing for both parents and children.
