Rarely does a film reach out and grab ahold of you with its authenticity, satire, and meaning -- but that's exactly what 2022's **TRUST** does. But for my links with staff who work for the streaming service Mometu, TRUST might have stayed completely off my radar, languishing, unfairly, in the eternal ether where tens of thousands of direct-to-streaming films reside. **TRUST** doesn't deserve its obscurity. Not since 2002's **ABOUT SCHMIDT** has a film so perfectly incapsulated the human drama that happens every day in the world -- as families come to grips with death and dying. Directed by Almog Avidan Antonir, for which he co-wrote with Jennifer Levinson (who stars as the grief-conflicted Kate), TRUST serves as a wake-up call to anyone unprepared to deal with the inevitable. As the surviving children and their estranged father assemble for the off-the-rails funeral, old grudges quickly bubble to the surface exposing actual trauma and unsettled scores that would give any veteran family counselor anxiety. With a strong supporting cast -- especially Heston Horwin as middle son whose personal life comes crashing down, Kate Spare as the melodramatic, rapacious sister Trini, and their estranged father Damien, played by Linden Ashby -- the dysfunctional quartet clash throughout the film in destructive and escalating ways. So often it chances that the untimely death of a family m…

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