PVT Chat

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PVT Chat

2021

1h 26m

Mystery & Thriller

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A lonely internet gambler in New York City becomes obsessed with a seductive webcam model from San Francisco. He soon embarks on a quest to see if their emotional connection is real -- or if he's just being taken for a ride.

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Critics Consensus

Its intelligent and nuanced approach to potentially salacious material is refreshing, but PVT Chat struggles to use it in service of a meaningful story.

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Cath Clarke

Guardian

Feb 11, 2021

3/5

It's a film with a slackerish mumblecore vibe, and Hozie is refreshingly grown up about sex. But it's hard to see how his film adds much to the conversation about intimacy in the internet age.

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Adam Graham

Detroit News

Feb 11, 2021

B-

"PVT Chat" is at its best when it delves into the intensity of digital relationships and the ways our minds can trick us into believing the deepness of a connection formed over a computer screen.

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Danny Leigh

Financial Times

Feb 10, 2021

3/5

The movie ends up feeling like an older vintage of New York story, the kind of pre-gentrification indie you expect a youthful Jim Jarmusch to wander through.

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Greg Carlson

Vague Visages

Jul 28, 2023

Hozie nails the greener-grass metaphor in ‘PVT Chat’ with a clarity...

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Elissa Suh

Moviepudding (Substack)

Jan 27, 2023

A degenerate charm wafts through this When Harry Met Sally for the OnlyFans generation.

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Victoria Luxford

City AM

Mar 1, 2022

2/5

PVT Chat has interesting moments and eye-catching characters (Jacks shady friends who call him Blackjack Jack make his gloomy world a little larger). However, none of this arthouse fodder seems to gel in the way you hope it will.

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L H

@Occultjam Jun 3, 2025

I stumbled across this one on Tubi. I thought the premise was interesting and made me curious to see how an online gambling addict obsessed with a chat girl ends up panning out. I didn't have any expectations at all, and I can't say that I didn't like the movie, but I think it was missing something. Some depth, some nuance, some character development perhaps. It was mostly a lot of Peter Vack fapping. I guess by the time the film ends, the situation culminates into precisely what you think would happen in that scenario - unhealthy people getting together under unhealthy circumstances.

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Jon H

@RT63432056 Mar 14, 2024

Do I really need to watch Peter Vack repeatedly choke the chicken in vivid X detail? Unappealing characters doing unappealing things. I like the dirty side of the curb as much as the next degenerate, but these guys made me want to cross the street to avoid running into them.

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Dec 15, 2021

Amazing acting and filming, if you want stories with neat resolutions, high end production etc then you're missing the charm of this beautiful story

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florent m

@FlorentMagnoac Sep 10, 2021

Sadly the third act introduces the most interesting part of the story too late, and that was in the trailer, for what should have been the turning point and start of a clever interesting movie. Instead with get a wandering. Julia Fox is great and mesmerizing but sadly the cinematography and directing make it look like a bad student movie shot with 2 bucks and a few friends. The approach was interesting but wasted.

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Marc Z

@TKDLife Apr 15, 2021

This movie is horrible. It is a pseudo-intellectual, pompous soft core porn. The only reason to watch this movie is Julia Fox. Her talents and beauty transcend this vehicle. If she was not in the film it would be unwatchable; however, the scenes she is in you can not help but be captivated by her presence and delivery. I think the film was ambitious, but it fails because it does not understand its own identity. It is porn disguised as art. It is not art.

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Mar 22, 2021

Honestly, its garbage.. Unless your some kind of art critic that feels the needs to mix words to fluff this up into something special its a waste of your time.

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Synopsis

A lonely internet gambler in New York City becomes obsessed with a seductive webcam model from San Francisco. He soon embarks on a quest to see if their emotional connection is real -- or if he's just being taken for a ride.

Director: Ben Hozie
Producer: Oliver David
Screenwriter: Ben Hozie
Distributor: Dark Star Pictures
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Feb 5, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 9, 2021
Runtime: 1h 26m

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