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Synopsis: Set in Manhattan in 1995, LANDLINE follows three women in one family having lots of sex, drugs, and Japanese food. Navigating monogamy, honesty, and a long-lost New York, the Jacobs family lives in the last days when people still didn't have cell phones and still did smoke inside. Teenage Ali discovers her dad's affair, her older sister Dana uncovers her own wild side, and their mother Pat grapples with the truth that she can't have it all, but her family still has each other. For a generation raised on divorce and wall-to-wall carpeting, LANDLINE is an honest comedy about what happens when sisters become friends and parents become humans.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Gillian Robespierre
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
66
R
Year:
2017
97 min
459 Views


- I don't know,

are you inviting me?

- I want the whole family.

You, Ali, me, Ben, and...

you know, what's her face,

the one with the D.

- Yes, Dana.

- Douchebag.

- Her name is not douchebag.

That's too German.

Douchebag.

Dana Douchebag.

[muted chatter]

[water spraying]

- Okay, switch.

Okay, I need to wash.

- Okay, hold on.

Wait a second.

- What?

- What is that?

- What?

- Right there, that rash.

- [gasps]

Oh my God. Come on!

- Sorry, sorry.

It's on your arm too.

- Oh, I've been itching

all week.

- [garbled mumbling]

I think you might

have poison ivy.

- What?

Excuse me.

- What?

- How did I get poison ivy?

- That was a joint decision.

- You gave me poison ivy.

- It's probably

in my vagina.

- You want me to look?

- No! Geez.

- Oh, I should probably

pee on you.

- [laughs]

That move is for jellyfish.

I'm not stupid.

- No, it's for poison ivy too.

- [laughs]

- I think it is.

- You want to pee on me?

[laughs]

- Here we go, here we go.

- No! We just have--

- Shh!

- Are you doing it?

- Just quiet down.

- All right, do it, do it.

- I can't pee on command.

- Do it before I change my mind.

Do it, do it.

- Listen, okay, there it is.

- Oh my God.

- You want me to stop.

- No.

- No?

- I like it.

[sitar music]

- He was touring

with the Grateful Dead

for, like, many months.

So I don't even know

what this place is or--

- He wasn't touring.

He was following them.

He probably has lice.

- Making grilled cheese

sandwiches in the parking lot.

- [gasps]

- Hey, Ravi!

- Oh my God.

- Oh my God. Look at you.

- Look at me?

Look at you.

- You're back. Aw.

- Embrace me, brother.

Embrace me.

You get a head hug too.

- Hi, I'm Ben.

What's your--what's your name?

- This is--this is Table.

- Table?

- Off the bat,

she's taken a vow of silence.

- Oh, okay. That makes sense.

- Wow.

Just in time for the party.

- Dude, we got to catch up.

- Yeah, yeah, let's catch up.

- You good?

- Yeah.

- Okay.

- She's so good.

- Hurry.

- Okay.

- Let's go, let's go.

- Benjamin.

- Look at this.

- Benjamin.

- Guys, make room

for Table as well.

[indistinct chatter]

[sitar music plays]

- Did you see

what Ravi's new look is?

- [laughs]

I think he sews it himself.

- Can you imagine the Ravi

we knew in college--

- Yeah. It's different.

- Looking into the future

and seeing this?

- I know.

Well, I guess it's...

the influence of, you know,

Mrs. Table, yeah.

- He's soon to be, Mr. Table.

[laughs]

- Yeah. Hey, good for him.

- It's really sweet.

- I'm still looking

for my Table.

- [laughs]

- I really am though.

This girl

I was just with

showed up to a date

wearing a ski mask.

- [laughs]

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Elisabeth Holm

Elisabeth Holm is an American film producer and screenwriter. She produced the 2014 film Obvious Child and was formerly the film program director at Kickstarter. more…

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