All right, yes, it’s been some time since a Nicolas Cage-starrer was worth giving one’s attention to, and the basic set-up for Trust isn’t all that different from those numerous films we’ve ignored in years past — yet the first preview and basic credentials suggest something a cut above. My basic interest might come down to the very odd lineup of stars: along with Cage, Elijah Wood, musician Sky Ferreira, and Jerry Lewis (!) are making turns herein. By the looks of it, the material won’t be a total waste of that considerable talent.
As directed by music-video-cum-feature-directors Alex and Ben Brewer and co-written by Adam Hirsch, the Vegas-set comedy concerns two loose-limbed cops who decide to rob a drug dealer’s cash-filled vault. It would seem things eventually go wrong, as should be expected, but trailer is mostly humor-oriented — and none too bad on that count, despite the fact that Lewis doesn’t appear. (Methinks he won’t be involved in the shoot-outs on display, alas.) Between this and, per Deadline, the news that his upcoming Vengeance: A Love Story will be Cage’s first directorial effort since 2002’s Sonny, the man just might give us a decent string of new titles in the near future.
See the trailer below:
Synopsis:
A dramatic comedy about David Waters (Elijah Wood) and Jim Stone (Nicolas Cage), two nobody police officers who work in the evidence room of the Las Vegas Police Department. When Stone discovers an unusually high bail receipt in connection to a drug bust, the two friends set in motion a plan to find the source of the money.
The Trust will premiere at SXSW and be released on DirecTV’s VOD service on April 14.