"The Phone Call" is a 2013 live action short film that runs for roughly 20 minutes and won the Academy Award that year, a great success for director and writer Mat Kirkby and co-writer James Lucas. The probably biggest reason for this success may have been the very good performances by Academy Award nominee Sally Hawkins and Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent who is only to hear, not to see. A woman works at a call center that helps people who have some kind of problem and this day, she gets a really severe and heartbreaking case. I have to say the script was good too, but it was nowhere near as good as what the two lead actors made of it. All in all, I recommend this short film. It is definitely a pretty good watch, but it's also very depressing from start to finish, even if they tried to make it somewhat uplifting at the very end, so do not give it a go if you are in the mood for something positive. I guess the drama and tragedy are also what resonated most with the Academy Award voters. Recommended.
Review of The Phone Call
