Trust

Trust (stylized as trust_) is a 2010 American drama thriller film directed by David Schwimmer and written by Andy Bellin and Robert Festinger, based on an uncredited story by Schwimmer. Starring Clive Owen, Catherine Keener, Jason Clarke, Liana Liberato, and Viola Davis, the film follows a fourteen-year-old girl who becomes a victim of sexual abuse after meeting a man posing as a teenage boy on an online chat room. Trust premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10, 2010, and was theatrically released in the United States on April 1, 2011. Despite underperforming commercially, the film received positive reviews, with Liberato's performance earning critical praise. Liberato won the Silver Hugo Award for Best Actress at the Chicago International Film Festival, and Schwimmer was nominated for the Grand Special Prize at the Deauville American Film Festival. Plot For her fourteenth birthday, Annie Cameron receives a laptop from her parents, Will and Lynn, and she soon meets a boy named Charlie in an online chat room. Charlie initially claims to be 16 years old, but eventually confesses that he is 20, and then 25. Annie is taken aback at first, but comes to believe that the two of them are in love. After two months of communicating electronically, Charlie invites Annie to meet him at the mall. When he arrives, she discovers that he is actually a man in his late 30s. Charlie convinces the distressed and uncomfortable Annie to have ice cream with him at a café. Annie later accompanies Charlie to a motel, where he makes her try on lingerie he bought her before raping her, filming the ordeal. At school, Annie's best friend Brittany confronts her, having seen her with Charlie at the mall while working at a salon. After Brittany notifies the school administration, the police arrive and depart with Annie, drawing attention from other students. The events initiate an investigation, led by FBI Agent Doug Tate. The FBI have Annie call Charlie in an attempt to identify him, but he figures out the ruse and blocks her number before they can trace his location. Will hires a private investigation firm from New Jersey to catch Charlie, but this proves fruitless when they realize Charlie masks his IP address so that his location shows up as the Czech Republic. As his obsession with catching Charlie deepens, Will's relationship with his family becomes strained, and he starts having nightmares of his daughter being raped.