Entertainment Today Jan. 15-21, 1999 Los Angeles, CA Film Review by Tim Cogshell TALK TO ME Relationships in the '90s--what have they come to? That's the question debut director George Esguerra asks in his bright and sexy comedy TALK TO ME. He answers it, too. They come to $1.79 for the first three minutes, and 59 cents after that. The movie is about telephone party line dating, kind of like a combination of phone sex and internet chat rooms. Call the number and join the party. You can listen in voyeuristically or participate. If things get good, you can go to a private line. Bette (Cheryl Clifford) meets Arnold (Peter Welch) and they head to a private line and commence to have phone sex on the first date. It's wonderfully nasty. Esguerra cuts between the actors in their apartments as they tell each other a sexy story; they're masturbating and completely naked. It's actually a pretty daringly staged scene, but the movie isn't all masturbatory titillation. It's actually about something. What, you'll have to decide. All I know is I liked it, I liked it a lot! ©2001 Pug Films, Inc. All rights reserved.