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Denise Calls Up

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Denise Calls Up (1996)

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Reviews Counted:9

Fresh:7

Rotten:2

Average Rating:6.9/10

Runtime: 80 mins

Genre: Comedies

Synopsis: Director/writer Hal Selwen has fashioned an ingenious film from the use of one simple device: all the dialogue takes place on the phone. This little trick not only forces a great deal of... Director/writer Hal Selwen has fashioned an ingenious film from the use of one simple device: all the dialogue takes place on the phone. This little trick not only forces a great deal of free-wheeling conversation and witty asides, but it also serves as an overarching metaphor for romance in the modern age. The film focuses on six friends who are all too busy to actually see each other; instead, they apologize over the phone for missing this or that event. The comic mayhem percolates as they conduct their romantic entanglements with the help of the phone, fax, and modem. [More]

Starring: Alanna Ubach, Tim Daly, Dana Wheeler, Aida Turturro

Starring: Alanna Ubach, Tim Daly, Dana Wheeler, Aida Turturro, Liev Schreiber, Caroleen Feeney, Dan Gunther, Sylvia Miles

Director: Hal Salwen

Director: Hal Salwen

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A minor but quirkily charming comedy about alientaion, love, and folly that reflects the zeitgeist in terms of AIDS and modern technology.

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Salwen has captured and properly identified a very particular modern American species. His emergence as a filmmaker is a true event.

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10/16/02
Hal Hinson
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At only 80 minutes, it doesn't overstay its welcome, but slight though it may be, it knows how to create constant smiles.

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Kenneth Turan
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Too slight to be a cautionary fable and not light enough to merit the term 'goofy caper.' But it sits in an enjoyable place of its own.

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Desson Thomson
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Might have been more effective if the writer/director had taken the time to create characters imbued with more than token traces of humanity.

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James Berardinelli
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Doesn't go much past its gimmick, but it marks Salwen as a talent worth watching.

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Mick LaSalle
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It's hard to care about a movie story in which the characters never meet one another or really care about one another.

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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.

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