By Donna Freydkin, USA TODAY
NEW YORK - Love hurts.
Just ask Rebecca (Julianne Moore), an actress married to would-be philanderer Tom (David Duchovny), a househusband who’s obsessed with sex.
And there’s her immature Neanderthal brother Tobey (Billy Crudup), dating a frustrated novelist (Maggie Gyllenhaal).
The two couples bicker and banter in the romantic comedy Trust the Man, which premiered Monday night in Chelsea. But that tangled romantic web belongs firmly on the big screen.
In real life, Moore has been happily married to Trust’s director Bart Freundlich since 2003 and the two have daughter Liv, 4, and son Cal, 8. They started dating while shooting 1997’s The Myth of Fingerprints, which Freundlich directed. Trust, their second film together, opens in limited release on Aug. 18.
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