Love & Distrust

Plot synopsis:
The Summer House (Obsession & Suspicion)
The story follows Jane as she flees from England to France to stay with her aunt after her boyfriend Richard dumps her for another girl. However, he follows her to the summer house to try to win her back and, on the night of the Moon landing, tries to make his move, unsuccessfully.
Blue Poles (Suspicion & Sincerity)
Libby is a young woman who struggles within herself during a time of "coming of age". She is split between commitments, responsibilities, desires and trying to make sense if it all. After stopping Miles, a country guy driving to Canberra to see the Blue Poles, and spending some time with him, she ultimately moves forward on her own.
Grasshopper (Sincerity & Doubt)
The tragic story of two people fighting to break down the walls which stand in the way of human communication. Travis hides behind technology, such as cell phones and computers, to avoid emotional interaction with others. Terri hides behind make-up, high heels and prostitution to avoid emotional interaction with others. Their lives intersect for a brief evening when Terri finds Travis' phone which he left behind on a train. This accident brings them together, but by the end of the evening, Terri commits suicide, leaving a photo of her underage daughter.
Pennies (Doubt & True Love)
Charlotte Brown is a waitress and young single mother who will do anything for her daughter Jenny, and when push comes to shove, she does. With a menacing figure on the other end of the phone and a time limit of two hours, she must raise enough money to ensure that she sees the smiling face of her child again. After dealing with a few very unusual customers through the day, Charlotte finally gets enough gratuity money, but they are taken at gunpoint. Finally a tip from an honest customer comes just in time to pay for her daughter's entry in a talent competition with Pennies from Heaven.
Auto Motives(True Love & False Hope)
The impacts of certain decisions, we made very easily but it is hard to follow through them.

Tags: romantic

Review:
I felt like I was watching the Twilight Zone or Creep Show where nothing makes sense and there is no rhyme or reason why these clips were put all together in one movie.
If there were negative stars I would use them.I would think that the major actors given top billing in the movie for their brief scenes would pay large sums of money to have them removed.If I may quote from my favorite review on Rotten Tomatoes - "This movie is a huge piece of crap in a crap bucket."I actually want to sue someone for lost time and suffering plus the $1.08 I paid at the Red Box.Someone please explain..
For someone who randomly selects movies that I have no prior knowledge of and with expectations that it could be bad, but hold out for hope that it could be the best....I had no idea!
It was like watching a movie written by a 5 year old.
I was also suckered into watching this film because of the actors listed on the cover.
In no way are the short "skits"...I can't even call them a compilation of short "movies"...complete enough to be worthwhile to the viewer.
They are certainly artsy...and dramatic, but without a congruent storyline overall (and perhaps there is...but I have a hard time finding it) the movie is not worth the dollar that I put in the Redbox.
I watched the WHOLE movie hoping that I would find a common thread, only to be disappointed that I wasted that much of my life.
Surely the actors must have known what a joke the movie was.
Once again, I agree with Paul David in that I feel let down by the big players...Amy Adams, Robert Downey Jr.(his skit was like watching bloopers at the end of a serious movie), and Robert Pattinson (for the life of me, I can't understand why he agreed to do this movie...with such a budding career ahead of him...it was like a slap in the face to his fans).This was one of the worst movies that I have EVER seen.
THE WORST movie..the waste of 1 hr..I finally came to my senses and turned it off!!
I rented it because the cast were very familiar people..who has been in many A+ movies..to say I, along with my husband was very much disappointed is an understatement..
TERRIBLE, DREADFUL, STUPID, RIDICULOUS!!It was 5 short stories..that had no relevance at all..perhaps if all of them tied in together somehow, maybe that would make sense....I will make it a habit to start reading reviews before I waste my money next time..I realize that sometimes there will be a movie made, that is strictly for the "art" but this lacked in so many areas..for me, no art..no story line that made sense..in fact my 8 year old nephew could put together something more enjoyable than this..if you, after reading these reviews still rent..well then..you are just a glutton for pure punishment!.
I actually chose it in a bad movie month (November) because as a guy I actually thought (and still do) that Robert Pattinson of Twilight fame and on the back of 'Remember Me' was a good actor.
the movie also featured Robert Downey Junior and Amy Adams and I thought it was worth a whirl.sorry, it wasted my evening, what a complete load of absolute rubbish, garbage, words fail me.
It is one of the worst films which I have ever seen and was surely made to mock us all in our intelligence of watch ability.The film starts okay but goes rapidly downhill from there.
I was expecting a connection between the five stories but there was absolutely none and as for any love theme, that lost me completely.Movies like Crash, Fragments, Babel and others enthralled me but this one leaves me wondering what it was Alla bout and the sad thing is I will hesitate about watching another Pattinson/Adams movie after this debacle.This makes movies like 'Cloverfield' look like an Oscar nominee.The 'waitress' thing was quite watchable but far from entertaining and the 'cars' thing towards the end - the guy trying to pick up the ladies - and the mature lady who finds her 'cowboy' - just leaves you wondering what we are watching.
The ending has absolutely no meaning and if there is any acting of real note, it is probably from the sexy girl on the train.Be warned - this movie should definitely carry a health warning!.
If I would of had to watch this movie 1 more minute I would have clawed my eyeballs out with the gardening rake!!!!!
I rented this movie thinking I would fall in love all over again with Robert!!!
The big time actors in this movie COMPLETELY should sue the director and most of all the writer!!!!!!
DO NOT WAISTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS HORRIBLE DREADFUL MOVIE!!!
All it does is suck you in like a toilet with the big named actors it shows on the cover!!
It actually hurt my brain to watch this movie.
Do not watch the opening short or the short about "pennies", unless you enjoy being aggravated and feeling like you are wasting time that you will never get back.
I feel like the whole thing is a hoax to see how many people they can trick into watching a terrible movie, by enticing unsuspecting, innocent, movie renters, by placing well known names on the cover..
I thought there may at least have been nudity but no luck:( This movie sucks.
At first I thought maybe this wont be the worst movie that I have ever seen, I was proved incorrect.
This movie was absolutely the worst piece of cinema in the history of mankind.
Its tender approach to the various facets of love, well thought out story lines, beautiful soundtrack, and amazing CGI effects really come together to form an artistic masterpiece that has not been fully realized since the 2003 Martin Brest classic: GigliThe juxtaposition of 5 entirely different stories that start off having nothing to do with each other is only rivaled by the clever syntax and jagged transitions that underlies each plot turn.
While the themes never, truly, come together, nor do they build up into anything particularly ground breaking: it still leaves much room for conversation and self exploration at the end of the movie.
Just as there is a surge in the attention being paid to flash fiction (stories that are limited, in general, to 1000 words) and other evidences that we are running too fast through life to really commit to just about anything (relationships, long novels, thoughtful motion pictures, food that requires more than 40 seconds to 3 minutes in the microwave, instant weight loss, chats on the computer or cell phone rather than sit down conversations, etc), so here is a DVD that presents five stories with the loose theme of love.
This DVD is five stories, briefly described as one form of love and the results, given a name, and then proceeds to a short story attempted to make passable by the use of star names but self-defeating in the fact that they seem shot on home video gear - grainy, poorly focused, meaningless lighting, and embarrassingly bad script writing.
SUMMER HOUSE (shot in Normandy we are informed in the credits stars a house with the incidental, very brief placement of Robert Pattinson in the deep shadows as the love who got away from Talulah Riley and who wants back.
GRASSHOPPER places James Franco on a train with Rachel Miner, a Goth-like sex kitten who retrieves Franco's cell phone and opens a thankfully brief silly near blackmail episode to retrieve the cell phone - with a corny twist at the end.
AUTO MOTIVES deals with cars - Michael Imperioli tries in vain to seduce girls into his car parked in Washington Square while Robert Downey Jr appears VERY briefly as a car detailer who wants to get in front of the attention of Director James Cameron.
Only instead of wanting to keep watching, you start feeling so awful for the poor actors who got sucked into doing this, that you just have to turn it off.
Just like everyone else said, I think this movie is a joke...some sort of experiment to see how many poor, innocent Blockbuster customers they can get to rent a movie just by seeing the A-list celebrities on the cover.
My only hope is that this project cleared the slate for them.Minimum of 10 lines needed for review to be posted- so:I learned a lot about blackmail from this "film." If you can make it through the film, you too will become painfully aware that Hollywood stars too have ugly skeletons in their closets.
Obviously some of our best Hollywood hitters (ie James Cameron, Robert Downey Jr, Amy Adams, Robert Pattinson, James Franco etc) owe some serious favors to people in low places.
Obviously some of our best Hollywood hitters (ie James Cameron, Robert Downey Jr, Amy Adams, Robert Pattinson, James Franco etc) owe some serious favors to people in low places.
Starring Robert Pattinson, Sam Worthington, James Franco, Amy Adams and Robert Downey, Jr, people seem to be expecting a cross of "Twilight" meets "Avatar" meets "Spider-Man" meets "Enchanted" meets "Iron Man".
A film with that kind of mix would be even worse than "Love & Distrust".What "Love & Distrust" really is, is a compilation of 5 unrelated short films in the vein of something like "Coffee and Cigarettes" (2003).
The second major problem of the film is that the 15-minute vignettes are drawn out with short-lived characters and obtuse lessons on love."Love & Distrust" may be slow, boring and arguably meaningless, and I probably know more about love than its stars.
Hands down the worst movie I've ever seen in my life.
It has good actors in it but this movie is bad enough to end their careers possibly.
An actor such as Downey, Jr. should not downgrade himself from the risk of being in this movie and how terrible it is.
Why would you possibly want to put like 5 short movies into one?
James Franco is indeed a good actor and I enjoyed seeing him in Pineapple Express but this is a joke.
There was nothing redeemable about this movie, not even the otherwise great actors.
While, I enjoyed Pennies, I felt that Amy Adams performance was the brightest spot of the entire film.
Like I said, the stories are definitely hit or miss.
Robert Pattison had about 20 seconds of film time.
Do not watch this "film" you will be completely disappointed.
It is surprising how accomplished actors like Robert Pattinson, Robert Downey Jr. and Amy Adams could agree to star in such drivel - perhaps the art house crowd may unearth some merits which escaped my attention.
We have watched other Robert Pattinson films, and Water for Elephants was excellent, and thoroughly deserving of 10 stars.This?
I've never seen such an shitty movie like this one.
I really love movies and i thought it's a good one and so i wanted to watch it!
It's one of the cheapest movie's I've ever seen and I really don't know why Robert Downey Jr. has a role in this damn-movie!
Please don't watch this movie.
Please don't watch this movie.
He isn't worth any cent & when you really want to watch the movie, take much food with you, cause of the danger, that you can fall asleep!!!
At last i want to say, that the actors, Robert Downey Jr. up on, are very cheap and that they can't play good.
I think this might be the biggest piece of crap I have ever watched in my life!
This has to be the worst movie I have ever seen.
To backpedal a little about, I would like to say that their idea for the movie was interesting, and I get the feeling the short films included were written by amateurs looking for a chance to show the world what they can do.
However, the quality of the picture, the awful writing, and the ability of the film to turn actors I respect and admire like James Franco and Robert Downey Jr. into what you would consider B- or C-list really comes together to make for a really, really bad movie.
Let me just start off by saying that I am a big fan of movies, and I am very liberal in reviewing them.
By the way, the acting was very good, the stories just sucked.
I got a bad feeling while watching the previews and it got progressively worse- by the time this was over I was actually very angry for some reason, mostly because the stories were just stupid.
I also feel like I should at least email whoever owns Red Box. This is the type of movie that makes me want to just stick to tried and true "hits" and don't give other movies a chance if they seem iffy.
I like many others on here was drawn by the cast to this film and having read the synopsis i assumed it would be a film about 5 couples in and around each other with different paths to love.
I might have lost brain cells from watching this movie..
I actually felt as though these big name actors were filming a "joke" to show how their names sell films, but in the end it is more a kick in the you know what.
Shouldn't actors have dignity...I think we should be able to rent a movie based on the actors and summary of the film and not feel like the movie was made to waste an hour and a half of life.
My boyfriend likes main stream movies...I made him watch this with me....I better redeem myself quickly or I will never be able to choose the movie again.The movie is 5 short "skits" about odd people and the life they live.
Actually the only character who made me think was Amy Adams and whether or not she was schizophrenic (SP?) Don't bother watching this..
It was absolutely astonishing how a movie with this magnitude of star line-up could be this "unwatchable".
It has a very indie feel, and I have nothing against indie movies as long as the story can easily be comprehended.
In the case of "Love and Distrust", there were 5 stories.Sadly, after the third story I couldn't bare to watch any more, so if the fifth story was good, that's unfortunate that they didn't put it somewhere in the middle.Each vignette (of what I've seen) seemed so incomplete that they left a feeling of dissatisfaction, before starting a new story with yet an inadequate ending (if you could even call it an "ending").
Unless one sat down and put on a philosopher's cap and forced some meaning into the storyline, the same general question loomed over my head after each story - What the heck was that about?!When the cover of the DVD lists names like Amy Adams, Robert Downey Jr., Sam Worthington, Robert Pattinson, etc.
Five Short Films About Life.
Love & Distrust is a direct-to-video romance film starring James Franco, Robert Downey, Jr., Amy Adams, Sam Worthington, and Robert Pattinson.
The movie includes 5 unique short films:"The Summer House";"Blue Poles"; "Grasshopper"; "Pennies" and "Auto Motives".
It is a film about how events shape our perspective and help us form connections with each other in the most unlikely of places.This is not your typical film.Many have rated this low due to this reason alone.One has to watch this with an open mind to realize how good this collection of short films is.One must realize that this is a film about life.The main characters presented here are experiencing the conflicts as well as the challenges they are currently facing in life such as financial woes, stereotypes, alcoholism, sexuality and of course love and trust issues; and how they handle them.This is not your escapist film but rather a collection of film that presents realistically about different situations we may find ourselves into.It is one of the best direct-to-videos ever released..
He must have come from the boondocks, for no woman in her right mind in Manhattan would give this jerk a moment of her time.Then, in the same segment, we get a goofy Robert Downey Jr. with a friend exchanging some inane lines with James Cameron who is driving his Hummer.
We thought Mr. Downey had better things to do with his life and his career, for he is an excellent actor, perhaps on an off day having been conned by the director in being in her mess.Best of all is James Franco in "Grasshopper", showing he can enhance the material he was given to play.
Amy Adams tries to do something with her waitress having a bad hair day, although the material does nothing to her screen career.To be watched at the viewer's own risk..
Unlike other reviewers of this film, I will not whine about how "bad" it is or ask for my money back.
While I agree this is not the best film, it is not the worst.
While the plots of the short stories don't have a direct link, they all share this common ground.'The Summer House' stars Robert Pattinson in a five minute role.
Another case of a one-act making absolutely no sense, I found this to be the least intriguing of the five.'Grasshopper' stars James Franco.
The best part of this vignette was Robert Downey Jr breaking into James Cameron's house and stealing his Camaro.
Downey's screen time is five minutes, but it is five minutes well spent.I rented this movie because I am a Pattinson and Downey fan and their names drew me in.
Each is a standalone short made with nothing to do with the others whatsoever, and they were made up to 10 years apart (the Robert Downey Jnr one was made in 2000, the Robert Pattinson one in 2009, and others in 2004 and 2006 I think).