Writer-director George Esguerra knows a good conceit when he sees one, and we've all seen this one a few times before: Two ultramodern city-dwellers find anonymous pillow talk via a phone-sex party line a lot easier to handle than the real thing. Betty (Cheryl Clifford)
is fed up with the pressures of blind-dating: She never knows what to say and is tired of being judged before her prospective Romeo can get to know the real her. Betty also hasn't had sex in nine months, so on a whim she dials the Universe of Love tele-dating service (that's 1-900-LOVE), through
which she meets Arnold (Peter Welch), a guarded, 32-year-old architect who also has a few problems chatti...
Released:
1998
Rated:
NR
Length:
87 mins