Dear Phone
1976 · 17 MIN · IMDB 5.9 · 756 VOTES · DIR. Peter Greenaway
Overview
A narrator relates a variety of peculiar stories involving characters with the initials HC and their dealings with telephones. These are interspersed with artistic shots of telephone boxes in a variety of locations.
Dialogue Timeline — 231 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:01 (phone rings)
00:00:44 a fact that hadn't affected her memory.
00:01:33 and asked Hirous to buy him a drink.
00:02:23 and had banned Harry from using the phone behind the bar
00:03:12 Harrim Constanti insulted the operator
00:03:57 It was a weak link, but Hiro thought it was amusing.
00:04:49 and he organised his sex life on it.
00:05:39 Arrested for forgery
00:06:10 some nine months after Paulo's death.
00:07:00 and educated his Estonian grandmother
00:07:28 and his wife bought him a two-way radio
00:08:00 Winds will be northerly, moderate to force four...
00:08:35 Henry phoned the store and left a message there for Zelda
00:09:13 With no hesitation, Henry offered to provide the money for Zelda to move
00:10:09 The other women working on the exchange had mixed reactions.
00:10:40 His wife found out at the same time that the more militant telephonists
00:11:28 At the third stroke, it will be 2:30 precisely.
00:12:04 But Horace Muldoney said that Harry had told him that he liked travelling
00:12:33 Well, it's up to them, isn't it?
00:13:16 He was eventually arrested for causing corrosive burning
00:14:07 but his sense of timing began to go astray.
00:14:50 (three beeps)
00:15:27 "Dear Mother", or "Dear Z", or whatever it might be
00:16:03 (phone rings)
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed231
Dialogue density13.6 lines / min
First line00:00:01
Final line00:16:03
Production Record
DirectorPeter Greenaway
LanguageEnglish
Budget$500,000
IMDb votes756