
A group of friends in New York, working away at their PCs and laptops, keep in touch exclusively by phone and fax; all are too busy to meet face-to-face. By phone, Gale plays matchmaker for Jerry and Barbara who hit it off beautifully--via phone and fax. Martin gets a telephone call from somebody he has never met: it's Denise, and she has extraordinary news. Tapping away at his computer, he develops a sort of telephonic friendship with Denise. And so it goes as the friends ta... (Full plot summary below)
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A group of friends in New York, working away at their PCs and laptops, keep in touch exclusively by phone and fax; all are too busy to meet face-to-face. By phone, Gale plays matchmaker for Jerry and Barbara who hit it off beautifully--via phone and fax. Martin gets a telephone call from somebody he has never met: it's Denise, and she has extraordinary news. Tapping away at his computer, he develops a sort of telephonic friendship with Denise. And so it goes as the friends tap, tap, tap away, sharing news, hopes, and dreams--via phone and fax. Finally Gale has an unfortunate encounter with a phone, Denise has more news for Martin, and Frank plans a gala New Year's Eve party--but will he answer the door?
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| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranYet, there is also little doubt that when it comes to extreme physical humor, Carrey is remarkably gifted, a throwback to the vintage antics of Jerry Lewis or even the slapstick gang of silent comedy. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliThere's nothing worse than a film which mistakenly believes it's the comic event of the year. For no legitimate reason whatsoever, When Nature Calls is full of itself to the point of being offensive. |
| Washington PostDesson ThomsonToo 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. |
| San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserAs witty as this film is, Salwen can't get around the fact that a movie about people who don't meet saddles a director with a lot of scenes focusing on one person talking to no one but a piece of machinery. |
| VarietyEmanuel LevyA minor but quirkily charming comedy about alientaion, love, and folly that reflects the zeitgeist in terms of AIDS and modern technology. |
| The New RepublicStanley KauffmannAfter 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. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Chris HicksThe conceit of having everyone talk together almost exclusively by cell phone wears out its welcome by the halfway mark. |
| Filmcritic.comChristopher NullThe film is never really funny-ha-ha, but it never bores the viewer at all thanks to Hal Salwen's direction. |
| User ReviewAlanna SDenise Calls Up is a delightful comedy that just blows your socks off. |
| User ReviewJames H6.5/10. 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. |