For a Good Time, Call… is one of the first of what promises to be an avalanche of new female comedies that studios picked up on the strength of last summer’s tidal wave of Bridesmaids. When I saw it a couple of weeks ago, I was prepared for it to be a kind of boring, copycat piece. What I watched, instead, was a very funny girl-buddy movie about Lauren (Lauren Anne Miller), and her friend Katie (Ari Graynor), who, derailed from their chosen career tracks by a bad economy, go into business together as phone sex operators. The jokes are, to put it mildly, unprintable, but I found myself laughing at them partially because they were so unabashedly raunchy. Bridesmaids looks quite prissy beside this pair.
Michelle Dean talks to co-star and co-writer of For a Good Time, Call…, Lauren Miller.
