CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1971
The Telephone Book posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1971 1h 20m USA

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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The Telephone Book

Comedy
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CINEHUNCH / THE NEXT FRAME

Keep the feeling.

SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION

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The Magic Christian poster 01

Movie / 1969 / Comedy

The Magic Christian

Why this pick

Shares The Telephone Book’s gleefully artificial, anything-can-happen comic universe, with pop-art visuals, anarchic gags, and a satirical appetite for making ordinary social rituals feel wonderfully deranged.

Putney Swope poster 02

Movie / 1969 / Comedy / Drama

Putney Swope

Why this pick

A similarly scrappy, freewheeling late-’60s satire: bold visual jokes, abrupt comic detours, and an irreverent attack on commercial culture delivered with handmade underground energy.

The President's Analyst poster 03

Movie / 1967 / Comedy / Science Fiction

The President's Analyst

Why this pick

Its lone protagonist is swept through a cartoonishly hostile modern world, combining deadpan paranoia, offbeat encounters, and playful social satire in a spirit close to The Telephone Book’s comic restlessness.

The Loved One poster 04

Movie / 1965 / Comedy

The Loved One

Why this pick

Matches the film’s heightened, absurdist treatment of loneliness and American institutions, using an episodic string of strange encounters and a knowingly artificial comic tone.

Smashing Time poster 05

Movie / 1967 / Comedy

Smashing Time

Why this pick

This bright, mod London comedy has a comparably whimsical, episodic rhythm and playful visual sensibility, following a young woman through a parade of eccentric characters and pop-cultural absurdities.

CURATING YOUR NEXT FRAME

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

The story of a day in the life of a lonely, sensitive, exhuberent, attractive, young woman. Her exploits, encounters, and frustrations as she attempts to find a "special" someone, a caller who has "class", as she puts it.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Sarah Kennedy

Alice

Norman Rose

Mr. Smith

James Harder

Obscene-Caller

Jill Clayburgh

Jill Clayburgh

Eyemask

Ondine

Narrator

Barry Morse

Barry Morse

Har Poon

Ultra Violet

Whip Woman

Geri Miller

Dancer