TRUST (V V S, 2010) D: David Schwimmer, w/ Clive Owen, Catherine Keener. Rating: NNN DVD package: NN Rating: NNN
Clive Owen and Catherine Keener may be the names above the title, but the movie really belongs to Liana Liberato, who plays Annie. Just turned 14 and newly in high school, she’s groomed online and raped by a 35-year-old predator posing as a high schooler.
The role requires Liberato to move by stages from happy, confident child to mistrustful ball of misery as her life and family crumble. She’s flawless every step of the way. So are Owen and Keener as her parents, particularly in the back half, when Dad develops a mania for finding the rapist and becomes his daughter’s chief antagonist.
David Schwimmer’s direction avoids the graphic and finds small, appropriate bits of humour here and there, but he never softens the material. Editorial comment is confined to occasional background images.
In the very earnest extras, Schwimmer talks briefly about his involvement in a rape treatment centre as the source of the story.
EXTRAS Background doc, on-set footage, cast and crew interviews. Widescreen. English audio and subtitles.
