Releases in UK cinemas and on Digital HD Friday 27th May 2016
Bad Lieutenant meets Lethal Weapon in this blackly-comic buddy cop thriller. Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, Kick-Ass) delivers his best performance in years as a nihilistic cop who teams with a reluctant young officer played by Elijah Wood (Maniac, Sin City) to stage a big money heist. After premiering at SXSW, The Trust has already picked up a word-of-mouth reputation as the crime thriller to watch this year.
Key Talent:
Nicolas Cage (Bad Lieutenant, Leaving Las Vegas, Kick-Ass)
Elijah Wood (The Lord of the Rings, Maniac, Sin City)
Jerry Lewis (The King of Comedy, The Nutty Professor)
Sky Ferreira (Putty Hill, The Green Inferno)
Writer/Directors:
Alex & Benjamin Brewer (feature debut)
Synopsis:
In a department full of sleaze and corruption, Las Vegas cops Jim Stone (Nicolas Cage) and David Waters (Elijah Wood) form an unlikely team as they begin an off-the-books investigation into a bailed heroin dealer.
Discovering the dealer’s huge underground safe beneath an apartment building, they hatch a plan into the safe for their own ends…