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Alice (Sarah Kennedy) reveives an obscene phonecall - and it's the most
terrific obscene phonecall she has ever received, so she sets out to track
down the caller ... but all she knows is the caller's name's John Smith,
and there are hundreds of those in the New York phonebook. So she calls
one after the other - and eventually, one John Smith admits to having
called her ... but when she pays him a visit, she finds herself in the
middle of a porn shoot, with John Smith being aged pornstar Har Poon
(Barry Morse) aiming for a comeback. Since Alice believes Har Poon is her
John Smith, she joins in on an orgy scene, in the middle of which she's
called by her obscene caller who tells her she's on the wrong trail. Calling
John Smith after John Smith, it's only a matter of time until Alice runs
out of money, but fortunately she meets a perverted psychoanalyst (Roger
C. Carmel), who promises to pay her if she tells him erotic stories -
naive as she is, she wills in and tells him such an awkward story about a
man with a big dick (William Hickey), that the analyst runs out of money
but is left unsatisfied. The money from the analyst is stolen as quickly
as it was earned, so Alice sees herself forced to accept an invitation
from a woman she doesn't know (Jan Farrand) to call from her home - where
the woman dildos Alice during her calls. Finally, Alice tracks down and
meets her John Smith (Norman Rose), a man in a pig mask who tells her he
was once a top soldier destined to become an astronaut until he lost his
nerves in the weightless chamber and only doing obscene phonecalls could
keep him in check - until he was found out, fined, disgraced, his wife,
son and dog left him ... upon which he came to New York City to make his
obscene calls into an artform - but nobody responded as spledidly as
Alice. Alice wants to have sex with him, but he ... just can't - but what
they can do is calling her from an adjoining telephone booth to talk dirty
... and so they talk and talk and talk all night through, until the
experience leaves Alice totally exhausted ... The Telephone
Book is rather certainly a film like none you've ever seen before.
Sure, on the surface, the plot is basically an excuse to show quite a few
(quite lovely) naked women, but the movie's approach to its subject matter
is nothing short of absurd, as is its humour, several of the subplots are
surprisingly complex and thought through despite being completely
over-the-top, and the surreal animation sequence in the finale really has
to be seen to be believed. In short, it's a highly original and
definitely unusual sex comedy, and totally worth a look or two.
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