TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

michpackfan I watched this for a second time after watching it when it first came out. I only remembered bits and pieces but not the ending. The whole movie is ruined by a "lack of an ending". There are so many movies made like this in the last ten years or so it is a waste of time watching them. You have to kind of guess what might or might not have happened. I just wasted another two hours of my life!!

blrnani It isn't a great movie, but I think it is about such an important topic that I recommend people watch it anyway. I agree with colleagues on here who describe it as almost documentary like in its portrayal of this family tragedy. Not only does it show up the dangers of paedophilia and how these sick monsters use the internet to groom and subvert kids. You also have the father who is in such a rage and filled with recrimination that he failed to protect his little girl that he can't even think straight anymore. And you see the difficulty when his concern for his family distracts him from his work, to the point of threatening his professional career. Moreover, he starts to look at his own work, often portraying young women as objects of sexual desire in his advertising campaigns, through new eyes. Then you have the perverse high-school values, where so much self esteem hangs upon being in with the cool crowd and sexually desirable. The able pervert (shockingly, himself a teacher) is able to play on all the teenage angst to further his own ends, pushing the right buttons when his intended victim learns he is not a 16-year-old high-school kid, but a 20-year-old college undergraduate, no wait, a 25-year-old graduate and finally, on meeting him, a 35-year-old adult. You'd think with those progressive shocks she'd have run, fast, but by then she'd been convinced they were soul-mates in love. So when her worried best friend goes to the school administration, which in turn leads to police and then FBI involvement, our heroine feels betrayed and her 'perfect love' has been irredeemably spoiled. Then it finally dawns on her, thanks to FBI matches, that her 'Charlie' is a serial predator who was only interested in sex with her (which he filmed - one wonders where he keeps those and how he keeps them from his family's prying eyes) and her confidence comes crashing down. At this point, high-school cruelty (surely among the most savage environments on the planet!) comes into play, driving her towards suicide. I won't give away any more of the story, but just mention Viola Davis' excellent portrayal of the psychological counselor, who has to tread a very cautious non-judgemental line. Vitally, she is the one the girl turns to after the initial crash. And best friend Zoe Levin, who is always there for her, even when treated badly for 'ratting her out' - everybody needs friends like that!

blanche-2 David Schwimmer does a decent job of directing "Trust," from 2010, with a marvelous cast consisting of Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Liana Liberato, and Viola Davis.Owen and Keener are Will and Lynn, who have a boy about to go off to college, a beautiful 14-year-old daughter, Annie, and a little girl. It's very important for Annie to fit in at school -- she wants to be liked by the "in" crowd. One night she goes to a party and becomes uncomfortable when she realizes the girls there are much more sexualized than she is. She's still a virgin.Annie has been in a teen chat room talking to a guy named Charlie for a couple of months. She believes him to be 16. He confesses that he lied and he's really 20. Later, he says he's 25. He comes into town to meet her, and they meet in a mall. She is shocked when she sees him -- he's closer to 35.Charlie convinces her to go to a motel with him, and he rapes her. She tells her best friend, Bridget, about her experience, and Bridget goes to the school principle. The police are called, and Annie has to submit to a rape kit, the FBI is brought in, and her parents are informed.Annie is livid with her parents, drops Bridget as a friend and becomes increasingly more angry and sullen, especially when she is unable to talk to Charlie -- he hangs up when he realizes his call is being traced. She doesn't believe he's a predator For Annie, this is a boyfriend - he tells her she's beautiful and special, he gets her. Meanwhile, Will is torturing himself with his obsession over his daughter's rape and is determined to find "Charlie" and kill him. A somewhat predictable film enlivened by an excellent cast. The standout is Liana Liberato, who captures every emotion of Annie's. Most impressive is while she's begging Charlie to get off of her, her face suddenly changes, and you know she has totally distanced herself from the situation. Clive Owen is effective as a loving father who believes that he's failed. He's preparing an ad campaign for the "tween" market showing teens looking very provocative. He becomes aware of teens being oversexualized and the predators who seduce them, playing into their loneliness and insecurities.The end of the film is quite chilling."Trust" shows that along with the virtues of technology, there are a lot of sins, and parents have to have the wiles of a snake and constantly monitor their kids. Anybody can pose as someone else, send fake photos, say all the right things, and take away a young girl's innocence.I have to agree this was a little on the Hallmark Movie side -- it's one of those films where if they hadn't assembled the cast they did, it could have been a TV movie. Still, it was a good watch.

larion-gulyas Reading the title and the main story, I was thinking, that Trust means in this case between the targeted teenager and the online predator, but it is even more. Trust means in this movie the belief in the family for each other, which is a certain point of time absolutely missing between the main characters, and the film is showing the way how they are able (or not able) to get it back. After the first half an hour it is visible, that the main character in the movie is not the daughter, but the father, since he is the one, who generates most of the feelings around him, and he needs to fix everything. So one of the main objective of the film, is to show, how difficult being a father in the 21. century, with all the potential dangers around the family, knowing, how big physical and spiritual support need to be maintained. Big respect for David Schwimmer and Clive Owen!