Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 22
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Critic Reviews: 9
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Thanks to the technological marvels of wireless phones, answering machines, the internet, and e-mail, it is no longer necessary actually to see anyone you know, and seven friends have taken this notion to its logical extreme in this comedy. Linda (Aida Turturro) throws a birthday party and to her dismay, none of her friends show up. The next day, while making phone calls with several acquaintances (none of whom ever meet face to face), Linda hears the same excuse from everyone: they were busy
Jun 1, 1996 Wide
Oct 22, 1996
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
All Critics (25) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (5)
A minor but quirkily charming comedy about alientaion, love, and folly that reflects the zeitgeist in terms of AIDS and modern technology.
Salwen has captured and properly identified a very particular modern American species. His emergence as a filmmaker is a true event.
At only 80 minutes, it doesn't overstay its welcome, but slight though it may be, it knows how to create constant smiles.
It's hard to care about a movie story in which the characters never meet one another or really care about one another.
An alert, funny antisocial comedy.
After a while, besides enjoying the stories as such, we begin to enjoy the film's trickiness, almost all on the phone, as a sort of high-wire act.
Who'd have thought a movie about people talking on the phone could be so fun?
Insightful comedy about keeping in touch in the modern world.
Denise Calls Up is, if limited, a surprising success.
Yes, the movie is a bunch of skits, all right. But in the end it sketches the more elaborate portrait of funny people who don't realize how funny they really are.
Even given its inherent limitations, it is interesting, unique, and thought provoking.
Denise Calls Up is a delightful comedy that just blows your socks off.
April 1, 2010
6.5/10. Imaginative and different, refreshing performances. The film makes an interesting point. Nicely edited, very well written. It doesn't work completely, but works well enough to make it very entertaining. Good direction by Hal Salwen. He developed the characters nicely.
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