Directed by: Carlson Young
Starring: Sophie Turner, Rhys Coiro, Billy Campbell, Katey Sagal
Here's a movie that's a challenge to review, especially nearly one month after seeing it in a mostly empty theater on Labor Day. Or maybe it was before then. I will try and recall the events of the movie, Trust, which came and went in a limited theatrical run. It is pretty much a dead zone with a heroine who barely seems interested, which is soon the same effect Trust has on the audience. Here goes:
Television star Lauren Lane (Turner) is in the midst of a scandal in which she is suspected to be pregnant, Lauren hides away in an Airbnb house in the countryside, one which is besieged by would-be thieves who terrorize Lauren before two of them wind up dead at the scene, and Lauren is hiding away in a secure room where she spends the rest of the movie while loved ones look for her and the baby's father, the star of the show Lauren has been on for years (Campbell) hires a hitman to kill her because she won't get an abortion. Lauren attempts to escape the room when the door won't open, winds up accidentally breaking a water pipe, and tries her mightiest to repair the leak before the room fills up with water and drowns her.
I was reminded of various Three Stooges episodes in which the hapless Moe, Larry, and Curly try their hand at plumbing and of course muck up the works. Lauren does no worse a job, but I found myself wishing I could go home and watch the Stooges instead. Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk.
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