Trust (2009 TV Movie) User Reviews (5)

Trust is in short supply here

[sol-kay · 6/10 · 1 August 2010]

***SPOILERS*** Overly plotted and both mind numbingly and complicated film that feels like it's a week long 10 to 12 hour mini series not a 90 minute made for Lifetime TV movie.

There's the Gunn's Sandra & Matthew, Jamie Luner & Neis Lennarson, an upscale Seattle couple who's hopes and dreams depends on Matthew's Sergecal Tech. company getting the O.K to market this new heart monitor. The monitor will not only revolutionize the world of cardiology but make him and Sandra rich beyond words. It's about that time that Sandra starts getting E-Mails and letters, with no return address or stamp on them, telling her that her husband Matthew is cheating on her.

Sandra goes so far as getting private detective Moon(Steven Cree Molison), a guy with a perfect set of white teeth, to check her husband out. As it turns out Moon finds that Matthew in fact is not having an affair with anybody man or woman! Still the letters and E-mails keep coming telling Sandra that her husband is a first class heel and not to believe Moon or anyone else that he's not!

It's then that we get to the real heart of the matter in Matthew's assistant the sexy Michelle Jablonski, Crystal Lowe, who discovered a clink in the heart monitor machine that his company is now marketing to the public. There's something wrong with it and if not fixed at once, and also being withdrawn from the market, it may well end up killing dozens if not hundreds of it's users! The only problem now is to keep this news from Matthews's partner in the company and good friend Bill Jackson, Brendan Beiser, from knowing about it. Bill being the honest and ethical person that he is would have the heart monitor withdrawn and thus, in order to save lives, bankrupt the company!

***MAJOR MAJOR SPOILERS***(Don't read unless you've already seen the movie) Despite it's overly complicated storyline it doesn't take that long to realize what exactly is going on with Matthew's so-called extra curricular activities with the opposite sex in the film. It's all a shell game on Matthew's part to somehow get Bill out of the way and do it so expertly that even an old hand like PI Moon would be fooled by it! What Matthew didn't quite count on was that in this modern age of high tech computers and mini cell phones the slightest slip up can mean disaster on his part! And that's exactly what happens to him at the very end of the movie!

Lack of Trust

[Sjhm · 3/10 · 2 August 2012]

As stories go, based around a wife's suspicions about her husband, Lack of Trust would be a better title. Seriously, if you are married and someone sends you a letter saying that your partner is cheating, you either blow up on the spot and clear the air, or you dismiss it out of hand. UNLESS you have absolutely no self-confidence. We're asked to accept that this woman, who is an artist showing her work, would have so little confidence in herself, and her marriage, that she would automatically assume the worst the instant an anonymous letter arrives. The girl in the detective agency is spot on the money. When the wife goes down that route, the marriage is over. Even if her husband is entirely innocent, she won't be forgetting her suspicions. If she tells him what she's done, how is he ever supposed to trust her again. More overblown shenanigans ensue as the detectives the wife hires blunder around spying on the wrong guy and recording private conversations which have nothing to do with the husband supposedly cheating. There's a strange side plot involving the wife's artist friend who she shares a studio with, and an even stranger relationship where the husband tries to play matchmaker between his partner and the receptionist. Then there is some kind of conspiracy involving the heart monitor that the husband and his partner are betting their all on. It's all a little jumbled and inconsistent, but the acting isn't too bad (considering the short-comings in the plot), and if you like jumbled conspiracy, and can overlook the wife's slightly irrational actions, it isn't that bad.

Cheating Husband with a Twist

[isleofjules · 8/10 · 3 January 2010]

After watching this movie on Lifetime I have to say that this movie was very good with just a few tiny hiccups. Jamie Luner plays Sandra who suspects that her husband, Matthew is cheating on her when she begins to receive warnings through the mail and email via the computer. She starts to follow him around town, seeing him purchase a set of pearls in a jewelry store and later that day or the next he gives her a ring from the same jewelry store she decides to hire a detective couple to follow him and gain evidence of the affair. What they soon learn is that her husband is not cheating on her and she tells her husband about hiring the detectives. The detectives then start to track down the helpful citizen that sent the emails and letters through the mail. Sandra then has her hands full with an art show debuting her new works of art. The story culminates in Sandra learning that Matthew's partner, Bill has been supposedly stalking her and wants her all for himself.

Small inconsistencies in the secondary story with Matthew's partner, Bill. He almost seemed to be a red herring thrown into the mix to blow up and pace and then used as a stalker at the end. The character of Bill just seemed to be tossed into the mix and was never fully fleshed out. Except for the scenes which involve his car being vandalized and popping in and out of the office I never really got a sense of who he was which left me feeling vaguely unsatisfied at the end. Jamie Lunar did a wonderful job with the character of Sandra and I enjoyed watching her interpretation of a wife and artist learning that her husband may be cheating on her and then reacting to the discovery of what her husband was really up to at the end. I believe that this movie was well worth the two hours I spent watching it on a weekend and that others will absolutely enjoy it.

12th Street Mirage

[lavatch · 8/10 · 21 March 2020]

The painter Sandra Gunn has a fantasy of living in a dream house on 12th Street with her husband Michael. At the opening of the film, Michael is closing a big business deal with the sale of a medical device for heart patients. But Sandra is unaware that Michael knows that the company's heart console is defective and that he will be bilking the buyer and endangering patients.

There is an interesting misdirection on the part of the filmmakers that leads to Sandra's concerns about Michael's faithfulness. She hires a sleazy husband-wife team of private investigators to put a tail on Michael. The result is that Michael has never cheated on Sandra, which lulls her into complacency about the depravity of her husband's character.

From start to finish, "Trust" was an engaging thriller, due in large part to the interesting set of characters. There is a subplot in which Sandra works closely with her partner Alex in a loft. Alex was her former lover, and Sandra may be tempted momentarily to reignite the romance. Her painting also takes an interesting new direction when she examines the question of infidelity. The colorful husband-and-wife team of P.I's was also a lively addition to the film.

Michael's partner in the invention of the heart console was Bill, a bon vivant who had a moral compass. It was Bill who insisted that the Dunn company remain in tact because he believed in the integrity of heart device. There was an unintentional comic side to the film in that Michael and Bill never seemed to do any work, but were always on the move, running around to hotels, restaurants, and binge purchases, a swanky car for Bill, jewelry for Michael.

In the end, the filmmakers were successful in developing their theme about trust. Sandra may never have her dream home on 12th Street. But she has grown in strength and self-reliance in the personal trial that will test her own fidelity and how much she values the her real experiences over the world of fantasy.

The Perils of Jamie

[geoffox-766-418467 · 13 March 2011]

For once again we are forced to watch this actress (a carbon copy of Judith Light) doing soap opera. Again playing opposite a man she could be the mother of, let alone a wife. After a while it gets boring seeing her dramatize her way through the movie. Wearing obvious sun glasses to disguise herself yet letting her much too long mop of hair blow in the wind. I always wonder why she is constantly covering her face with so much hair, too much hair for a woman of her age.

It seems Jamie Luner looks the same in every film she makes. No change in her looks or her acting. Still awful. The gentleman in question played by Nels Lennarson has not choice but to play opposite her. How he must have suffered creating his role. She was that annoying.

But that hair. Please somebody give her a haircut and get rid of all that mop. That too is annoying. Once you cut two thirds of it off - COMB IT!