Screen One (TV Series) Trust Me (1992) User Reviews

He's a poof, his wife's a nymphomaniac and they're both trying to blackmail me

[ubercommando · 9/10 · 27 April 2005]

A little known gem from the BBC's "Screen One" stable of one off feature length movies for TV. This one is about Harry, a compulsive liar, who makes up outlandish but vaguely credible stories for tabloid newspapers. One of his scams is a fake biography called "Confessions of a Hit Man". This leads him into trouble when the publisher (played by Jill Gascoigne, Alfred Molina's real life wife), believes he's ACTUALLY a hit man and hires him to kill her husband. Harry wants to back out but she's also hired two real hit men to help him in their job (one of them played by the always excellent Hywell Bennett). Harry turns to his brother, who works at the Ministry of Defence, and tries to convince him to give him a new, experimental weapon to beat the hit men, but in fact his brother is developing a self-heating tin of soup. Along the way, Harry can't help lying, often for no other reason than he feels like it: His lies start a rumour that his sister-in-law is having an affair, his brother is gay and this in turns leads to the brother being investigated by MI5 (Jack Shepherd playing the agent assigned to the case). The plot, however complex, is wonderful and surprises, twists and entertains. The dialogue has great moments such as "She suffers from Centurion's Syndrome", "Stay with the poof, I'll get the bastard", "Ah, the classic KKI: Kitchen Knife Incident" and "Look out, Lasagne!". Crowning a great little movie is the cast: Molina plays it perfectly, not mugging the camera like Jim Carrey, and with a lot of wit. He's fantastically supported by Jill Gascoigne, Jack Shepherd and Hywell Bennett as well. If you ever see it on DVD or VHS, buy it!

Extremely Funny

[Kavikulaguru · 10/10 · 25 October 2004]

I saw this movie a few years ago on Star Movies in Bombay. It came back when I saw Molina in Spiderman. Trust Me is a great flick. It is highly enjoyable and laugh-riot from start to finish. Molina plays a compulsive liar with finesse. I have been looking for the DVD. Haven't seen it on any of the cable channels either. It's small films like these which capture one's imagination. There is no hamming. Watch Molina on how to play a likable compulsive liar without being over the top. Thank God this movie has not been made by Hollywood. It would lose its charm. The character would be played by some over-the-top actor and that would spoil this movie for sure. Deserves a 9/10.

Look out! Lasagne!

[just-fb · 10/10 · 14 March 2014]

All I could remember was that I nearly wet myself laughing at one line - compulsive liar Harry trying to escape the hit-men, hired by his real- life wife(Jill Gascoigne)... he points at the sky and shouts "look out! Lasagne!" .... and that it has the same effect on me today when I heard it again at last. Harry, the lead played by Alfred Molina makes up stuff just for the halibut, and for sensation-seeking newspapers. Some of his fibs are outrageous, others hilarious, but the whole script is witty and beautifully played. A BBC film that has all the hallmarks of small-scale, delicately British humour. Alfred Molina is superb, and now I have found this film again my life is complete :)

The funniest movie ever

[shreeram_s · 25 July 2003]

This movie is absolutely hilarious, seamlessly combining the slapstick and the subtle to give a thoroughly enjoying experience. The plot is riveting, with its hilarious twists and turns that happen in the life of Harry Greaves, a compulsive liar. Harry lies to get himself out of sticky situations and also just for fun, with ,predictably, invidious results. Molina does very well in the role, his understated insouciance much more effective than any obstreperous Jim Carrey-esque hamming. The movie is a must see for all fans of great comedy!

Lovable compulsive liar out of his depth

[murray-fenton · 10/10 · 7 July 2006]

The film is riddled with quot-ables. Its class British actor cast, were more people to look into its background, would excite anyone. It was screened as part of a short series of dramas of which it was head and shoulders above the rest. The BBC should release this because my by-now adhesive-tape-coloured VHS copy wont last forever. The BBCs best kept secret - its unbelievably classic. For a change, Molina isn't playing a stubbly Eastern European. He's a lovable fat bloke whose practical jokes and lies dig him deep into a government scandal. Stealing some photocopied random documents from his MI5 brother, Molina attempts to secure a book deal with 'Diary Of A Hit-man', only for the publisher to offer him and advance......not for the ten a penny book - but to kill his wife! In the meantime, said wife has hired Bennett and Lloyd-Pack to bump off her husband. A muddle of honour amongst hit-men ensues. The tour-De-force performances of Molina, Bennett, Lloyd-Pack and Jack Shepherd as the duped MI5 investigator, not to mention every last one of the stars and supporting cast, make this one of the sadly long lost classics. Along with Butterfly Kiss, this is one hell of a case for petitioning the BBC to release on DVD. I'd say now if the BBC granted me copying rights, I'd buy the discs and re-distribute the pair of them on DVD for the cost of postage, such is my passion for both TV films.