Deadly trust

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Movie
German title Deadly trust
Original title Domestic Disturbance
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Harold Becker
script Lewis Colick ,
William S. Comanor ,
Gary Drucker
production Harold Becker,
Donald De Line ,
Jonathan D. Krane
music Mark Mancina
camera Michael Seresin
cut Peter Honess
occupation

Deadly Trust (original title Domestic Disturbance ) is an American thriller by Harold Becker from 2001 . The main role was played by John Travolta .

action

After divorcing the unsuccessful shipbuilder Frank Morrison, Susan Morrison wants to marry the successful and popular entrepreneur Rick Barnes. Susan and Frank's son, Danny, doesn't think much of Rick and wants to go back to his pre-divorce state. Since the divorce two years ago, Danny has ended up with the police several times because of various rebellious acts, where his parents had to pick him up. The conflict is exacerbated by the wedding of Susan and Rick.

Rick, who tries to hide his criminal past, is surprised that his former accomplice Ray Coleman shows up for the wedding and demands his part in an earlier unspecified criminal act. Rick tells him he needs time to do this and puts him in a motel.

The night Susan reveals to be pregnant by Rick, Danny sneaks into Rick's car out of desperation and hides in the footwell of the back seat to get close to his father. Rick telephones Ray to give him the money and drive him to the airport. Instead of going to the airport, Rick drives to a brick factory and claims he was lost. He asks Ray to look for a map in the back seat. The moment Ray notices the boy, Rick stabs him from behind. He burns the corpse including the luggage in a brick oven, not knowing that he is being watched by Danny the entire time.

Danny doesn't believe anyone in the police department except his father, and the case is mistaken for another lie by the boy. Frank, who does not want to leave his son with a suspected murderer, wants to bring Danny to his home, which his ex-wife strictly refuses. The custody battle ends up in court. The night before the trial, Danny is threatened by Rick that he shouldn't tell the truth and that he should stay with his mother and Rick, otherwise something could happen to his father. Danny, who is afraid for his father, then lies in court, whereupon his father reacts in shock and feels lied to by his son about the murder. In addition, Danny avoids contact with his father for fear of Rick in the following days.

After Danny has given his father the hint that he is being threatened by Rick, Frank searches all the motels to find out something about Ray Coleman, whom he met at the wedding. He comes across a prostitute with whom Ray has had a lot to do, finds out through her that he was a fan of a basketball team from Chicago and inferreds his origin. Through this information Frank finds out on the Internet that Rick's real name is Jack and, along with Ray and two other men, was charged with extortion and attempted murder and was the only one who was not convicted. Frank immediately sends this information to the police. Immediately thereafter, Rick, who became aware of Frank's research, lurks him in his boathouse, knocks him out and sets the house on fire. Since some gasoline had gotten onto Rick's arm, he sustained a burn injury when lighting. Arriving home, Susan sees, who has already heard about the fire on the news, whereupon Danny told her about Rick's threat that her husband would disinfect his arm. When he comes out of the bathroom, she tells Rick that she's worried about going to Frank's burning house. Frank manages to save himself, drives quickly to his son and tries to call there. When Rick answers the phone and sees Frank's number, he follows Susan and Danny into the garage, pulls Susan out of the car and knocks her out, causing her to lose her baby. He ties the boy up and throws him in the back seat. Before Rick can drive off, Frank shows up. A grueling fight ensues in which Frank falls to the ground. Danny, who manages to break free, pushes Rick into a fuse box, so that Rick dies of an electric shock.

Reviews

Roger Ebert complained that in Hollywood the ambition to make good films was decreasing. In some scenes you can see what the film could have been. For the director Harold Becker, whom he valued, Deadly Trust was "paid leave". He found the last part of the film in particular so unspeakable that he "wasn't the least bit surprised when the studio called and said the Chicago critics had seen the 'wrong final film role'". During the substitute performance, however, it became apparent that the role only lacked the final music. Music is "the least of the problem with this film role". Among other things, he felt a scene as a "slap in the face of any logic" and a fight scene was so badly choreographed that it appeared to consist mainly of a chair.

Dennis Schwartz asked in Ozus' World Movie Reviews of November 20, 2001 if it wasn't time for Travolta to star in a good movie. He described the performance of the actors as "lame", the script as "terrible" ("awful"). He criticized numerous scenes as "implausible".

“One of those 'Evil Comes-in-My-House' films that come across as a crime thriller, but are staged so heavily that you almost have the feeling of seeing a satirical: connection errors [sic], idiotic phrases , implausible scenes [...] and the 08/15 story are a real nuisance. This is certainly a low point in the work of the veteran Harold Becker [...]. "

"Conventional thriller with traditional family morals, convincing at least in figure drawing and representation."

Awards

Matt O'Leary was nominated for the Young Artist Award in 2002.

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating "valuable".

John Travolta , on the other hand, received a nomination for the 2002 Golden Raspberry in the Worst Actor category for his performance in Deadly Trust and Password: Swordfish .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Dennis Schwartz: Domestic Disturbance. In: Ozus' World Movie Reviews. November 20, 2001, accessed January 21, 2017 .
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