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Denise Calls Up

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Denise Calls Up

PG-13

1995

1h 20m

Comedy

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71%

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28 Reviews

58%

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100+ Ratings

Modern technology connects six housebound workaholics and one outsider, all too busy for face-to-face encounters.

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Nigel Andrews

Financial Times

[A] funny, low-key character octet.

Jul 16, 2024

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Geoff Brown

Times (UK)

So much is funny, and the central conceit so timely and resonant, that this very modern romantic deserves the most kindly attention.

Jul 16, 2024

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Quentin Curtis

Daily Telegraph (UK)

Just when you feel like hanging up, Salwen achieves something miraculous. These shards of conversation form themselves into a collage of single life in the city.

Jul 15, 2024

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Mike Davies

Birmingham Post

Debut writer-director Hal Salwen has crafted one of the funniest, most original, most perceptive, and maybe most enjoyable films of the year.

Jul 16, 2024

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Philip French

Observer (UK)

The movie is inventive and often quite funny, but these yuppies (or phonies) rapidly got on my nerves -- the way people who do gabble on in a telephone booth when you've got an urgent call to make.

Jul 16, 2024

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Dennis Lim

Independent on Sunday

About as cinematic as, well, an 80-minute conference call. There's a cute short somewhere in here, but across a full-length feature, the gimmicky premise is spread very thinly indeed.

Jul 12, 2024

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Valerie N

While understandably dated that part is limited to the tech of the time; the premise resonates. Very clever and entertaining!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

10/12/24

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Audience Member

I’m sure at the time this was a somewhat ground breaking movie of sorts but from 2020 it was a tad annoying to me 2.1

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/26/21

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Audience Member

All takes place on the phone because car phones were a big deal back then. Needless to say did not age well.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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Audience Member

Denise Calls Up is a delightful comedy that just blows your socks off.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Audience Member

good stuff but different

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Audience Member

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.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/30/23

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Synopsis

Modern technology connects six housebound workaholics and one outsider, all too busy for face-to-face encounters.

Director: Hal Salwen
Producer: J. Todd Harris
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Comedy
Original Language: English
Box Office (Gross USA): $147.0K
Runtime: 1h 20m

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