A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
Acting
Slate and Quinn's prickly, lived-in sister chemistry
Production
Painstaking '90s detail: Blockbuster, beepers, Biggie on tape
Director
Gillian Robespierre
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Robespierre and Slate reunited after their Sundance hit 'Obvious Child'; this was their '90s-set follow-up about a different kind of unwanted discovery.
The title refers to literal landlines but also the emotional tether between family members who can't quite connect—set right before cell phones made everyone constantly reachable yet somehow lonelier.
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