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Monster In A Box In Trust Clive Owen Is A Dad At War With An Online Predator VIDEO

For 10 years, David Schwimmer made you chuckle as earnest, feckless Ross on Friends. But in his feature directorial debut, Trust, he will infuriate you and make you cringe — especially if you’re attempting to parent a teenager. Unlikely as this shape-shift seems, Schwimmer in real life has been focusing for the last seven years on the very unfunny subject of sexual predators. Trust is based on the story of a father he met while involved with a Santa Monica rape treatment center, and it is really a horror story for the Internet Age. 14-year-old Annie is a bright and untroubled girl safe in the sanctum of a picture-perfect family (who wouldn’t want Clive Owen for a dad and Catherine Keener for a mom?). And she does what comes naturally to any kid born after 1990: Live a second life online. Entirely through nightly chats, she falls for “Charlie” — seemingly the out-of-state boyfriend any father could love, who turns out to be anything but.
After a very disturbing scene in which Annie meets Charlie in the flesh, which briefly turns Trust into a psychological thriller, the film angles off to her parents, and to her father’s agony in particular. Owen, who often plays the stoic and cold-blooded anti-hero taking care of business, offers here a taut portrait of a man who cannot save his own daughter from the world’s evil. Law enforcement agents seem competent but ultimately ineffectual.

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