# Trust (1990 film)

Trust is a 1990 dry, bleak comedy film in which after being thrown out of her house, Maria encounters a married woman who complains of not having children. Maria ends up in an abandoned house, where she meets Matthew. When a baby is kidnapped Maria sets out to find the woman.
    Written and directed by Hal Hartley.

## Dialogue

    Matthew: I carry this with me at all times.
    Maria: A hand grenade?
    Matthew: Yeah.
    Maria: Is it real?
    Matthew: My dad brought it back from Korea.
    Maria: What for?
    Matthew: Souvenir, I guess.
    Maria: No, I mean, why do you carry it around with you all the time?
    Matthew: Just in case.
    Maria: Just in case what?
    Matthew: Just in case.
    Maria: Are you emotionally disturbed?
    Matthew: Look, I just showed it to you because of what you said.
    Maria: Forget what I said. Put that thing away.
    Matthew: Do you really think it's a good idea to drink soda for breakfast?
    Maria: It keeps my skin clear.
    Matthew: What?
    Maria: It's true.
    Matthew: In ten years your bones are gonna snap like twigs. You oughta have a glass of milk.
    Maria: Milk gives me pimples.
    Matthew: You probably get more pimples from all that makeup you're wearing.
    Maria: Makeup hides my pimples.
    Matthew: Sorry.
    Peg: So, do you have a girlfriend?
    Matthew: What's that got to do with anything?
    Peg: Maybe that's your problem.
    Matthew: Do I have a problem?
    Peg: Of course you do.
    Matthew: Oh yeah, and what do you think my problem is?
    Peg: I don't think you laid enough.
    Matthew: Is that so?
    Peg: Well, what kind of relationship could a man as screwed up as you possibly have?
    Matthew: I don't have relationships.
    Peg: You love 'em and leave 'em, huh?
    Matthew: I don't love anybody.
    Peg: You mean, you just have a girl.
    Matthew: I take what I can get. Now if you're through talking, do you want to go out back and fuck?
    Jean: I'm never going to let you take Maria away from me.
    Matthew: I never said I wanted to.
    Jean: She's got to pay.
    Matthew: Your husband died of a heart attack.
    Jean: No one dies of a heart attack. They die of disgust, disappointment.
    Matthew: You're not the first woman in the world who's had a hard time.
    Jean: You're an outsider; you don't understand. A family's got to stick together, come hell or high water.
    Matthew: A family's like a gun. You point it in the wrong direction, you're gonna kill somebody.
    Jean: Exactly.
    Maria: Did you mean it? Would you marry me?
    Matthew: Yes.
    Maria: Why?
    Matthew: Because I want to.
    Maria: Not because you love me or anything like that, huh?
    Matthew: I respect and admire you.
    Maria: Isn't that love?
    Matthew: No, that's respect and admiration. I think that's better than love.
    Maria: How?
    Matthew: When people are in love they do all sorts of crazy things. They get jealous, they lie, they cheat. They kill themselves. They kill each other.
    Maria: It doesn't have to be that way.
    Matthew: Maybe.
    Maria: You'd be the father of a child you know isn't yours.
    Matthew: Kids are kids, what does it matter?
    Maria: Do you trust me?
    Matthew: Do you trust me first?
    Maria: I trust you.
    Matthew: You sure?
    Maria: Yes.
    Matthew: Then marry me.
    Maria: I'll marry you if you admit that respect, admiration, and trust equals love.
    Matthew: OK. They equal love.
    Maria: Can you stop watching TV for a moment?
    Matthew: No.
    Maria: Why?
    Matthew: I had a bad day. I had to subvert my principles and kowtow to an idiot. Television makes these daily sacrifices possible. It deadens the inner core of my being.
    Maria: Let's move away, then.
    Matthew: They have television everywhere. There's no escape. And besides, you won't leave your mother.
    Matthew: I'm sorry. I lost my head.
    Maria: It's OK.
    Matthew: What do we do now?
    Maria: We could run?
    Matthew: We'd never make it.
    Maria: I'll tell them it was my fault.
    Matthew: They'll never believe you.
    Maria: I don't care if they believe me or not.
    Matthew: Why have you done this?
    Maria: Done what?
    Matthew: Why do you put up with me like this?
    Maria: Somebody had to.
    Matthew: But why you?
    Maria: I just happened to be here.

## Cast

* Adrienne Shelly - Maria Coughlin
* Martin Donovan - Matthew Slaughter
* Merritt Nelson - Jean Coughlin
* John MacKay - Jim Slaughter
* Edie Falco - Peg Coughlin
* Karen Sillas - Nurse Paine

## External links

* Trust quotes at the Internet Movie Database