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THE TELEPHONE BOOK
1971
Director
Nelson Lyon
Starring
Sarah Kennedy
Norman Rose
James Harder
Ondine
Runtime
80 MINUTES
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“One of my favorite films of the Seventies.”—Steve Martin
Truly alive and more wonderfully whacked with each passing minute, this underground comedy plays like a sketch show devised by Robert Downey Sr.—with a little Ralph Bakshi and Brian De Palma thrown in for good measure. A bored woman (LAUGH-IN's Sarah Kennedy) is invigorated after a life-changing obscene phone call from a baritone weirdo. In a who’s-who of the era’s counterculture personas, she calls every last Village crackpot in search of her velvet-voiced wonder. THE TELEPHONE BOOK’s bizarre peanut gallery includes future Oscar nominee William Hickey, Warhol superstars Ondine and Ultra Violet, and voiceover guru Norman Rose (wearing an unforgettably disturbing pig mask) as the obscene call king.
Truly alive and more wonderfully whacked with each passing minute, this underground comedy plays like a sketch show devised by Robert Downey Sr.—with a little Ralph Bakshi and Brian De Palma thrown in for good measure. A bored woman (LAUGH-IN's Sarah Kennedy) is invigorated after a life-changing obscene phone call from a baritone weirdo. In a who’s-who of the era’s counterculture personas, she calls every last Village crackpot in search of her velvet-voiced wonder. THE TELEPHONE BOOK’s bizarre peanut gallery includes future Oscar nominee William Hickey, Warhol superstars Ondine and Ultra Violet, and voiceover guru Norman Rose (wearing an unforgettably disturbing pig mask) as the obscene call king.