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Quite the most boring nonsense I have seen in a long time. The plot was full of irrelevance, and the acting was the worst I have seen in a long time.

To make it worse, camera angles that made me feel sick were used , the incidental music was terrible and drowned out the dialogue (maybe not a bad thing then), and the shots of San Francisco looked as if they had been stolen straight out of the city tourist board's promotional video.

Oh, and the obligatory sex scene was not even half well done. Better lighting next time, please.

As a lonely, single guy in 1990's, I watched WAY too many "erotic thrillers" on late-night cable. The "erotic" part was always pretty debatable, but very few of these movies were at all "thrilling", especially as time went on and they became increasingly lousy with slumming porn actors, interminably long softcore sex scenes, and horrid music (that all seemed to be composed by a guy name "Herman Beeftink"). This movie, even though it was a half-assed vehicle for then-star of TV's "Melrose Place" Brooke Langton, is actually a lot more entertaining than most.

Langton places a sexy young thing who has just moved into her boyfriend's apartment, but she has a jealous lesbian girlfriend (Sara Buxton) who won't let go. Through a crossed wire or something, she starts listening in on the phone sex conversations of someone in the building, and she realizes that this person's phone sex partners keep turning up dead. But is it the handsome but creepy upstairs neighbor, the landlady's disturbed brother, or is it perhaps someone closer to home?

OK, in real-life there are probably half a dozen ridiculously sexy women anywhere in the world who were actually into phone sex in the 90's(if they weren't getting paid for it that is) and five of the sex get murdered in THIS movie. So, obviously the plot is less than believable. Still, this does keep you guessing to the end. It has some elements of superior thrillers of the era like "Single White Female", but while it's not as good as that one, it actually does have a much better ending. The erotic content is kind of brief as these films go, but that also makes this more entertaining than most as an actual MOVIE. Being the seething cauldrons of acting talent that they were, Langton and Buxton could not be called on to actually express their lesbian passion by stripping off for some hot girl-on-girl action, but that is not nearly as big of liability as it would be in a lesser movie. I would actually, tentatively recommend this. It's not much of a compliment perhaps, but there are only two direct-to-cable 90's "erotic thrillers" I actually think are better than this, "Sensation" with former MTV "VJ" Kari Wuhrer and Eric Roberts and "The Fourth Floor" with Juliette Lewis and William Hurt.

"Listen" is pretty good, especially since I like actress Sarah Buxton.

The movie is exciting, and rather complicated; it's all cleared up in the end, though.

This movie has a lot of problems. Set in San Francisco, but obviously filmed elsewhere (Vancouver, I think) it overuses way too many of the erotic thriller clichés. It wasn't very erotic, with only one scene being an exception. It casts suspicion on too many characters. There is some really poor acting by the police characters, and the supposed big-city police department was shockingly inept. But I suppose if they had done a better job, there would a lot less to make a movie about. Brooke Langton and Sarah Buxton, the two leads, are really the only ones in the film who could act at all. They carried the corpse of this movie through all of the gaping plot holes, and in the end, one of the characters had to explain the whole thing in a voice-over. Ugh. Don't bother, although it's unlikely anyone will see it these days. I had taped it from cable many years ago, and just watched it. Probably not available commercially any more.

I think Sarah Buxton is the best actress ever! (In my opinion, of course!) This is a great change in character from her other movies and tv shows. I really liked this movie because it has a great storyline and the plot goes deeper than you may think. To really understand this movie, you should really see it more than once.

Brooke Langton and Gordon Currie are also great in this movie. Each character is exceptionally important, and it really is a good movie! 10/10!!!