Taglines: Lose your hang-ups. Find your calling.
Staid Lauren Powell, originally a Long Island princess and now working as a book editor for a small, struggling publishing house, faces a housing crisis in expensive New York City after her live-in boyfriend, Charlie, moving temporarily to Rome, breaks up with her thinking that she is boring. She is unable to afford the apartment on her own. Sexually provocative Katie Steele is also facing a housing crisis when what was her now deceased grandmother’s rent controlled apartment, where she lives alone, goes market rate, she too unable to afford the apartment on her own now.
Lauren and Katie, who have known and hated each other for ten years – that hate due to one specific incident when they were in college – are brought together by their gay, mutual friend Jesse who convinces them that they need each other to live together in Katie’s spacious apartment, at least in the short term. Things go from bad to worse for Lauren when she is let go from her job due to no fault of her own. She is somewhat offered her dream job at a larger publishing house, that job which isn’t available for three months. Finding out that Katie works a multitude of jobs, Lauren, in order to pay her share of the rent for those three months, offers to take over the business side of one of Katie’s at-home jobs: as a phone sex operator.
As the business flourishes under Lauren’s acumen, Lauren and Katie’s relationship changes from roommate enemies to business partners and true friends, with Lauren possibly being able to break out of her shell. That newfound friendship, the roommate situation and the business itself may all be in jeopardy as certain things in her life may tempt Lauren to head back into the life she knew, especially as she tries to hide the phone sex business from her conservative parents.
For a Good Time, Call… is a 2012 American comedy film directed by Jamie Travis. It stars Ari Graynor, Lauren Miller Rogen, Justin Long, Sugar Lyn Beard, Mimi Rogers, Nia Vardalos, Mark Webber, and James Wolk. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, 2012 where it secured a worldwide distribution deal with Focus Features. It was released theatrically in the United States on August 31, 2012.
For a Good Time, Call… (2012)
Directed by: Jamie Travis
Starring: Ari Graynor, Lauren Miller Rogen, Justin Long, James Wolk, Lawrence A. Mandley, Josh Ruben, Steven Shaw, Mimi Rogers, Don McManus, Mark Webber, Nia Vardalos, Sugar Lyn Beard
Screenplay by: Katie Anne Naylon, Lauren Miller Rogen
Production Design by: Sue Tebbutt
Cinematography by: James Laxton
Film Editing by: Evan Henke
Costume Design by: Maya Lieberman
Set Decoration by: Sarah Sprawls
Art Direction by: Lucky Cardwell, Sean Preston
Music by: John Swihart
MPAA Rating: R for strong sexual content throughout, language and some drug use.
Distributed by: Focus Features
Release Date: August 31, 2012
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