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Denise Calls Up [VHS]

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With the simplest of settings -- apartment rooms and interior car shots -- Denise Calls Up is a wry tale of how increased communication through technology (cell phones, faxes, email) doesn't necessarily lead to more better relationships. The "death by cell phone" incident is black humour at its best, the phone sex scene is hilarious, as is the birth scene conducted via conference call. The ending is bittersweet.

Never judge a book by it's cover-that's what you learn from watching this trendy little grinfest. Although it's quite brief and it's got a cast of unknowns-it succeeds. In my opinion, a movie is a winner if it delivers effects that it's genre promises. For example, a horror movie is good if it scares you-a drama is good if it makes you cry or at least grabs your full attention. This parody of human communications IS funny, and it has the power to KEEP you staying in tune with the storyline. So many things happen in the characters' lives and we learn this by listening to dozens of brief phone conversations. With it's amusing subplots and charismatic characters, you will like this film.

This movie is funny and a little sad. We are fast becoming "disconnected" physically from the human race. We communicate via phones, emails, faxes, etc. Why even go out to the movies when you know it will be on cable in 3-5 months. We order in food, shop on-line and talk on the phone in text messaging and can speak to an advice nurse on the phone. This movie hits it on head! Funny, funny, funny. Frankly, I'm with Jerry (Liev Schreiber). I could live in p.j.'s and never have a need to leave the house. I may look into homeschooling the kids so I don't have to drive them to school and work from home. Starting to really like this idea!

This is a smart, funny, creative and original film. This is a fresh comedy about 6 young New Yorkers who "live" on the phone. These phone-a-holics fall in love, break up, psychoanalyze each other, give birth and even die without getting off the phone. With an enjoyable score and very well written, this film is fun, marvelous and sophisticated. Released in 1995 it stars Caroleen Feeney, Tim Daly, Dana Wheeler Nicholson, Aida Turturro, Liev Schreiber, Alanna Ubach and Dan Gunther.

I recently caught this movie on cable, and I thought that it was okay. It deals with a bunch of busy thirty-something-year-old New Yorkers, who are friends, who can never find the time to get together. As a result, they mainly communicate by talking on the phone. This movie blends romance with comedy; during its course, one of the characters tries setting up one friend with another friend, and another character is contacted by a pregnant woman whom he artificially inseminated. I found some of the scenes to be funny, but I thought that the rest of the movie was sort of dry.