Sam Neill's directorial debut is an 18-minute PSA about phone manners. Yes, really.
Direction
Sam Neill's only directing credit before becoming a global icon.
Production
Peak 1974 New Zealand Post Office energy—government-funded surrealism.
Writing
Dramatized phone etiquette scenarios that accidentally slap.
Director
Sam Neill
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sam Neill was 26 and working for the New Zealand National Film Unit when he directed this, two years before his acting breakthrough in Sleeping Dogs.
The NZ Post Office ran telecommunications until 1987, making this literal state propaganda for infrastructure that would soon be privatized into oblivion.
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