Who Else Only Saw thins movie Because Of David Duchovny

David was the weakest lead in the movie? Guess you better tell these critics.


OK, here are some of the remarks i found about David

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Trust the Man




A smart, sophisticated comedy about the challenges of love and marriage among modern day New Yorkers, following the romantic escapades of two couples: a successful actress and her stay at home husband; her slacker younger brother and his aspiring novelist girlfriend.

The film follows these four on their pointed, often surprising and frequently hilarious search for love in the midst of careers, family, infidelity and the ever-daunting search for Manhattan street parking.

Trust the Man boasts an impressive cast including Julianne Moore, David Duchovny, Billy Crudup and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Eva Mendes, Ellen Barkin, James LeGros and Garry Shandling.

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David Duchovny is surprisingly funny as a jock and sex addict and his group therapy session is hilarious. Surrounded by other ‘sexual deviants’ he creates his own fetish, and it has quite a lot to do with deli meats.

while Duchovny looks to be really enjoying himself on screen for the first time in a long while.

David Duchnovy gets to shed his Muldur image and play an (almost) average guy.

David Duchovny is a deadpan delight

Duchovny gives his most vulnerable performance of his career. It's a shame that some people will always look at him as "that guy from that alien tv show." He has so much more to offer.

David Duchovny has never been so self-effacingly funny as he contends with a perpetual itch that he can't scratch

but Duchovny–one of the most underappreciated comic actors in movies today–rescues the film from banality with his deadpan zingers.


Duchovny's performance is equally strong,
To his credit, Duchovny takes a role that could have been played as a straight cad, and adds layers of depth and conflict to him that make him likable in spite of his cheating ways.

Duchovny is charming and every inch a leading man,

Moore and Duchovny, who were teamed in the dire sci-fi comedy "Evolution" a few seasons back, actually seem like an old married couple.

It's a sheer pleasure to watch David Duchovny as a desperate househusband in the romantic comedy TRUST THE MAN. With flawless timing and a sly smile, the former X-Filer steals the show - impressive, considering he shares the screen with Julianne Moore, Billy Crudup, and Maggie Gyllenhaal."

But the cast is fun to watch, especially Duchovny, whose comic timing couldn't be better

This one gives him a complement and then zings him

Duchovny -- who somehow gets lead billing -- is amusing, particularly when he joins a sex addicts group and feels the need to spice up his group confessions. But -- after years of making porn-movie jokes on "The X Files," and then playing pervs on "The Larry Sanders Show," "Twin Peaks" and "Full Frontal," you'd think he'd want to give this sleazy side of him a rest.


The comedy in “Trust the Man” springs as it should from dialogue, characters, situations and performances, and these things work often enough to keep you seated and laughing. As the horndog Tom, Duchovny especially rebounds from his 2004 semiautobiographical catastrophe “House of D,” and I can’t help but wonder if he’s the most interesting character in the film because he is its creator’s obvious alter ego.


often-amusing guy riffs of Crudup and Duchovny,
Duchovny and Crudup both doing particularly strong work (Duchovny is wry and subtle,

Director Bart Freundlich has an amazing cast: his wife Julianne Moore, the talented Billy Crudup and the affable, don't-you-wish-he-was-your-husband David Duchovny.

What was said about the cast
'Trust the Man' seemed to swerve towards a homage to 'When Harry met Sally' at times. With frequent New York scenery shots and some therapy scenes that didn’t seem to integrate into the main plot ; the film almost suffers as a result. Thankfully, it survived this association and benefited from a tight running time, laugh out loud scenes and some strong performances from actors not usually associated with the genre.


The central quartet of actors is very good, even with the slightly askew casting. And the colourful side characters are great fun;

Working with a beautifully in-sync comic ensemble including Julianne Moore, David Duchovny, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Billy Crudup, Freundlich, who's Moore's husband, delivers what is by far his most accessible -- and most satisfying -- film to date.

It is left to the cast to give this flimsy script any weight; but they do a good job. Moore and Duchovny have a tired disrespect for each other and the ever-widening gap in their marriage is well realised. With less to work with, Maggie Gyllenhaal still comes out sparkling, and the nice-but-drippy Elaine stays on the likeable side of shallow. All four leads show a flair for comedy and are at their wittiest in quick asides and sly glances

While the characters are synthetic, the performers are very engaging together. Moore and Duchovny, who starred in the alien-invasion comedy "Evolution," have a relaxed, old-married-couple grace, the usually sober Crudup shows nice comic charm, and Gyllenhaal infuses far more depth than her cliched character carries on the page.

The performances are all solid, and well-adapted to the material.


A smart, witty, and consistent comedic dialogue is weaved into each scene. It is laugh-out-loud funny from start to finish and the performances are solid all around.

The characters and the comedic moments that spill from their experiences is what makes this film shine. Trust the Man is a movie that any Twenty-something or Thirty-something couple will thoroughly enjoy. If you don't make it out to the theater, this movie should be added to your Netflix queue for that quite night in.

Trust the Man is ultimately a showcase for its male leads, with Crudup executing a nice tightrope act between charming and irritating doofus-ness, and Duchovny imbuing his porn-loving Tom—a man hiding his fears and disappointments underneath a façade of jokey sarcasm—with so much flippant silliness that, at times, the actor seems like he's willfully attempting to undermine the film's realism by treating his role like one big excuse to goof off.

And if it works for you, it's a good bet that the cast was part of the sell. All four leads are well-known-ish indie actors who've flirted with mainstream stardom for years. They've worked with each other before (Duchovny and Moore in Evolution; Moore and Crudup in World Traveler) -- and writer-director Freundlich is Moore's partner and co-parent, so the production is certainly close to home.

But each actor gets to move out of their comfort zone a little, too: Duchovny gets to be scraggly; Moore gets to be a centered mother (and for once let her art imitate her life); Gyllenhall gets to be gamine and sexy, and Crudup gets to make an absolute ass out of himself.

The performances, however, are uniformly strong, with memorable cameos from Ellen Barkin, Garry Shandling, Bob Balaban, and the always delightful and rarely recognizable James Le Gros. (Wade Major) (Pacific’s ArcLight, Laemmle’s Monica 4, Landmark’s Westside Pavilion)


The chemistry among the cast is great; the film feels, for the most part, like you're watching a group of old friends going through life crises together. The plot, in a nutshell: Rebecca (Moore) is a famous actress who has just taken on a stage play; her husband, Tom (Duchovny) is an ex-ad exec who recently quit his soulless job to stay home with the couple's two young kids. Rebecca and Tom are having sex issues: Specifically, Tom wants more of it ("Twice a day," Rebecca mouths to the couples' therapist (Garry Shandling) during their once-yearly therapy tuneup) and Rebecca doesn't. Moore turns in her usual classy performance as Rebecca, who's taking a break from the screen (as so many stars seem to be doing these days) to take a spin in a Broadway play.

Freundlich created characters who are whiny indeed, but are so darn affable and charming that they aren't aggravating about it. It certainly helps that the entire cast is first rate and playing to their considerable strengths.


A witty and incisive look at the vicissitudes of love with talented actors Julianne Moore, David Duchovny, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Billy Crudup would have been welcome indeed.


But the cast is fun to watch, especially Duchovny, whose comic timing couldn't be better. They're all adept at repartee, a good thing considering how these couples natter on. Moore, who is married to Freundlich and has worked with him twice before, obviously gets his drift, and she brings genuine emotion to Rebecca's speech about the sanctity of love.
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Nice remarks about the Cast
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'Trust the Man' seemed to swerve towards a homage to 'When Harry met Sally' at times. With frequent New York scenery shots and some therapy scenes that didn’t seem to integrate into the main plot ; the film almost suffers as a result. Thankfully, it survived this association and benefited from a tight running time, laugh out loud scenes and some strong performances from actors not usually associated with the genre.


The central quartet of actors is very good, even with the slightly askew casting. And the colourful side characters are great fun;

Working with a beautifully in-sync comic ensemble including Julianne Moore, David Duchovny, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Billy Crudup, Freundlich, who's Moore's husband, delivers what is by far his most accessible -- and most satisfying -- film to date.

It is left to the cast to give this flimsy script any weight; but they do a good job. Moore and Duchovny have a tired disrespect for each other and the ever-widening gap in their marriage is well realised. With less to work with, Maggie Gyllenhaal still comes out sparkling, and the nice-but-drippy Elaine stays on the likeable side of shallow. All four leads show a flair for comedy and are at their wittiest in quick asides and sly glances

While the characters are synthetic, the performers are very engaging together. Moore and Duchovny, who starred in the alien-invasion comedy "Evolution," have a relaxed, old-married-couple grace, the usually sober Crudup shows nice comic charm, and Gyllenhaal infuses far more depth than her cliched character carries on the page.

The performances are all solid, and well-adapted to the material.


A smart, witty, and consistent comedic dialogue is weaved into each scene. It is laugh-out-loud funny from start to finish and the performances are solid all around.

The characters and the comedic moments that spill from their experiences is what makes this film shine. Trust the Man is a movie that any Twenty-something or Thirty-something couple will thoroughly enjoy. If you don't make it out to the theater, this movie should be added to your Netflix queue for that quite night in.

Trust the Man is ultimately a showcase for its male leads, with Crudup executing a nice tightrope act between charming and irritating doofus-ness, and Duchovny imbuing his porn-loving Tom—a man hiding his fears and disappointments underneath a façade of jokey sarcasm—with so much flippant silliness that, at times, the actor seems like he's willfully attempting to undermine the film's realism by treating his role like one big excuse to goof off.

And if it works for you, it's a good bet that the cast was part of the sell. All four leads are well-known-ish indie actors who've flirted with mainstream stardom for years. They've worked with each other before (Duchovny and Moore in Evolution; Moore and Crudup in World Traveler) -- and writer-director Freundlich is Moore's partner and co-parent, so the production is certainly close to home.

But each actor gets to move out of their comfort zone a little, too: Duchovny gets to be scraggly; Moore gets to be a centered mother (and for once let her art imitate her life); Gyllenhall gets to be gamine and sexy, and Crudup gets to make an absolute ass out of himself.

The performances, however, are uniformly strong, with memorable cameos from Ellen Barkin, Garry Shandling, Bob Balaban, and the always delightful and rarely recognizable James Le Gros. (Wade Major) (Pacific’s ArcLight, Laemmle’s Monica 4, Landmark’s Westside Pavilion)


The chemistry among the cast is great; the film feels, for the most part, like you're watching a group of old friends going through life crises together. The plot, in a nutshell: Rebecca (Moore) is a famous actress who has just taken on a stage play; her husband, Tom (Duchovny) is an ex-ad exec who recently quit his soulless job to stay home with the couple's two young kids. Rebecca and Tom are having sex issues: Specifically, Tom wants more of it ("Twice a day," Rebecca mouths to the couples' therapist (Garry Shandling) during their once-yearly therapy tuneup) and Rebecca doesn't. Moore turns in her usual classy performance as Rebecca, who's taking a break from the screen (as so many stars seem to be doing these days) to take a spin in a Broadway play.

Freundlich created characters who are whiny indeed, but are so darn affable and charming that they aren't aggravating about it. It certainly helps that the entire cast is first rate and playing to their considerable strengths.


A witty and incisive look at the vicissitudes of love with talented actors Julianne Moore, David Duchovny, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Billy Crudup would have been welcome indeed.


But the cast is fun to watch, especially Duchovny, whose comic timing couldn't be better. They're all adept at repartee, a good thing considering how these couples natter on. Moore, who is married to Freundlich and has worked with him twice before, obviously gets his drift, and she brings genuine emotion to Rebecca's speech about the sanctity of love.