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Denise Calls Up

Play trailer Poster for Denise Calls Up PG-13 1995 1h 20m Comedy Play Trailer Watchlist
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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 Full Review Geoff Brown The 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Audience Member Denise Calls Up is a delightful comedy that just blows your socks off. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Audience Member good stuff but different Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews
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Hal Salwen

Director

Tim Daly

Frank Oliver

Dana Wheeler-Nicholson

Gail Donelly

Caroleen Feeney

Barbara Gorton

Liev Schreiber

Jerry Heckerman

Dan Gunther

Martin Weiner

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Movie Info

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
Screenwriter
Hal Salwen, Craig Horrall
Production Co
Platinum Pictures (II)
Rating
PG-13
Genre
Comedy
Original Language
English
Box Office (Gross USA)
$147.0K
Runtime
1h 20m
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