Hartley 's next film , '' Trust '' ( 1990 ) , followed similar themes and style to '' The Unbelievable Truth '' , again an offbeat romantic comedy starring Adrienne Shelly as a Long Island teenager who forms a complex romantic relationship with a mysterious computer repairman ( played by Martin Donovan , another Hartley regular ) . '' Trust '' won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival . Hartley followed this with the short feature '' Surviving Desire '' ( 1991 ) , a romantic comedy about a college professor ( Donovan ) who has an affair with a student ( Mary B. Ward ) . '' Simple Men '' ( 1992 ) , a drama about two brothers ( played by Burke and Bill Sage ) who reunite to search for their father and encounter two women in a small town ( Karen Sillas and Elina Löwensohn ) , was entered in competition at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival
1992 Cannes Film Festival
1992 Cannes Film Festival
Hal Hartley