2005 · comedy · drama · romance
Trust the Man
Directed by Bart Freundlich1h 43m2005
Overachieving actress Rebecca must come to grips with her failing marriage to stay-at-home dad Tom. While Rebecca's slacker brother Tobey can't seem to commit to his aspiring-novelist girlfriend, Elaine. As both relationships spin out of control, the two couples embark on a quest to rediscover the magic and romance of falling in love in New York.
Our read: Trust the Man (2005) reads as a warm, steady, grounded comedy · drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- gentle
- intimate
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