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Trust Me centres around Howard Holloway (Clark Gregg, who also writes and directs) as a struggling agent for child actors, who also a former child star himself, who spends years losing his most talented clients to his slick, arch-nemesis Aldo Shocklee.
Until the day that Howard encounters the brilliant and unsigned 13 year-old Lydia who is on the brink of securing the lead in a new Twilight-style franchise. Howard tries desperately to close the deal of a lifetime and make his precocious young client a star while managing her drunk, volatile father, Aldo’s relentless poaching attempts, and the hostile machinations of the project’s casting director and mega producer, who both despise him. But paige davis pokies the closer he gets to achieving the Hollywood score he has chased all his life, the more he develops a growing suspicion that his innocent young starlet may not be at all what she seems.
Trust Me also stars Amanda Peet, William H Macy, Felicity Huffman, Allison Janney, Molly Shannon, Saxon Sharbinoand Sam Rockwell, and hasn’t yet got a UK release date, but it seems to be on a limited release in the US anyway. To me, the trailer starts off okay, but it soon descends into a syrupy sweet pile of goo and a right turn-off.
If it does sound like your bag, though, check out the trailer below:
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