Dialing for Dingbats

Dialing for Dingbats
Directed by	Peter Slodczyk
Produced by	Michael Solton Lloyd Kaufman
Starring	John Caponera Marta Dargham Michael Jeffries Johnny Mask Lyn Segerblom Roger Rodd
Distributed by	Troma Entertainment
Release date	1989 (1989)
Running time	81 minutes
Language	English

Dialing for Dingbats is a 1989 romantic comedy directed by Peter Slodczyk and distributed by Troma Entertainment. The distribution company describes the film as "light hearted".

Plot

Randy, a lonely and shy man, meets a woman through a party line but communication problems complicate their date.

Reception

The film was considered "the first serious examination of the world of dingbats on the phone" by the Orlando Sentinel. A retrospective very negative review states that "This film couldn’t have been made in any other time than the late 80s, and not just for the snapshot of the bygone pre-internet dating scene mechanisms. It has a colorful VHS-era kitsch and an ungodly amount of earnest but bad jokes to the point it becomes surrealistic. The film takes too many detours to fill up the slight seventy-eight minute running time, with both commercial parodies and actual footage from other Troma films shoehorned in."

All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger (co-written by Kaufman and James Gunn) stated that "Troma tackles yet another socially important issue with the addiction of 1-900 party lines. This is the first film about phone sex."

External links

• Dialing for Dingbats at IMDb