Hopelessly stagebound, despite halfhearted efforts to open up what’s basically a talky two-hander, and risibly pretentious in the manner of soft-core porn that’s no sexier than glossy ads for expensive perfume, “Sweet Talk” is a borderline embarrassing vanity project that brings out the worst in TV vet Peter Lefcourt (“Cagney & Lacey,” “Desperate Housewives”), who adapted his own play, and his actress wife Terri Hanauer, here making her feature directing debut. A limited theatrical run will serve only as a fleeting detour on the expressway to oblivion.
Delilah (Natalie Zea), a dour beauty desultorily employed as a phone-sex operator, is drawn out of her cynical detachment during an impulsive call from Samson (Jeffrey Vincent Parise), a blocked writer who’s obviously a free spirit because he munches on a bagel adorned with whipped cream, and favors an old-fashioned typewriter over a newfangled laptop.
After being semi-seduced by his fantasy...
Delilah (Natalie Zea), a dour beauty desultorily employed as a phone-sex operator, is drawn out of her cynical detachment during an impulsive call from Samson (Jeffrey Vincent Parise), a blocked writer who’s obviously a free spirit because he munches on a bagel adorned with whipped cream, and favors an old-fashioned typewriter over a newfangled laptop.
After being semi-seduced by his fantasy...
- 12/13/2013
- by Joe Leydon
- Variety - Film News
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