The same situation is played out in different cities (New York, Berlin and Tokyo).

On the other hand, he may be just the sensible young man she needs in her life. An amnesiac wakes up on an NYC alley. He's got his football practice to go to, and even when the season is over his plans do not include matrimony. With Adrienne Shelly, Martin Donovan, Rebecca Nelson, John MacKay. Directed by Hal Hartley.

You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. A series that is comprised of twenty-one monologues written by American playwrights which form a sort of fractured portrait of the American collective psyche. When a baby is kidnapped Maria sets out to find the woman. I discovered Hal Hartley with this film and with "Simple Men". The soap opera idiom is suited for this, and so is the arbitrary nature of his plots; when a Hartley film plays on TV, you won't be tempted to go channel-surfing because the movie will seem to be switching programming for you. A lover has to choose whether to commit to a partner who is returning home. He chooses easy targets such as technology, and attacks them in heavy-handed scenes such as the one where Matthew drops a computer monitor on the floor in the factory where he works, and then, when the foreman protests, shoves his head in a vise. When a baby is kidnapped Maria sets out to find the woman. Popularly associated with the American independent filmmaking scene of the early nineties, he went on to write and direct such films as No Such Thing (2001) for United Artists and Fay Grim (2006) for HD Net Films. His brother Dennis, ... Possible Films is a small company run by me, Hal Hartley. There aren't many movies or directors I am just instantly on the same wavelength with, but with Trust and Hal Hartley it just instantly happens. A ten-years-later continuation of Hal Hartley's "Henry Fool", where Fay Grim (Posey) is coerced by a CIA agent (Goldblum) to try and locate notebooks that belonged to her fugitive ex-husband (Ryan). Matthew is an educated high school graduate with a great talent for fixing electronic devices, but he can't hang on to a job because of his principled attitude towards quality. Maria ends up in an abandoned house, where she meets Matthew. The day goes downhill from there; her mother throws her out of the house, and then she meets a drifter named Matthew, who may not quite be a mass murderer, but perhaps only because he has not yet started. This movie has all the witty and eloquent dialogue I could ever want. A man returns to his home town after serving a prison sentence for homicide, and finds that the details of the crime have been forgotten and replaced with local legends and rumors. Only a couple of minutes into this Trust viewing and I knew I made the right decision.
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The funny and moving tale of Joe Fulton who can fix anything for anybody but he can't achieve success himself. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism.Rushmore. The unlikely relationship between a pregnant high school student and a brooding electronics repairman lies at the center of this droll comedy from writer-director Hal Hartley… Did you know? Maybe the purpose of Hartley's films is to satirize America by taking the most ephemeral and superficial aspects of our society and treating them with utter seriousness - just as advertising inflates cans and bottles into sculptures on the scale of Mt. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Rifle family.
It is December 31, 1999 and New... Use the HTML below. "Trust" opens as Shelly, playing a Long Island high school student named Maria, puffs on a cigarette, adjusts her makeup, and informs her parents she's about to marry her no-good boyfriend, Anthony, who in her vision has his life all mapped out for himself: He'll go to school, play football, and join his father's construction company, "where he'll be pulling in a really bitchin' salary." Her father dies of a heart attack seconds later, and her mother holds this against her for much of the film.Her boyfriend is not much thrilled by her vision of their future, either. She adds, as an afterthought, that she's pregnant. And what does it mean that Matthew still lives with his father, a compulsive-obsessive who makes him clean house for hours at a time?

Socially inept garbage man Simon is befriended by Henry Fool, a witty roguish, but talentless novelist. She helps him find his identity.

Henry and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life.

Hal Hartley is an American filmmaker, writer, director, producer, and composer who has made twelve feature films since 1988. After being thrown out of her house, Maria encounters a married woman who complains of not having children.

When Maria accepts Matthew's offer to help her, they begin to form a relationship with each other in which both of them begin to change.