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It would be easy to say after a couple minutes of watching this film that its only virtue is it's shock value.....after all, it's a jolt to the system (and frequently hilarious) hearing a female senior citizen engage in the frankest possible sexual conversations. But don't dismiss it. Watching this film through to the end starts to uncover more important ideas. As you watch Phone Sex Grandma tend to her mundane daily activities -- caring for her cats, making coffee, taking a piss, reading in the tub -- while tending to the unique needs of the humans on the other end of the line...you start to appreciate that beyond the voices on the phone, these are real people living real lives. It's a smaller version of a celebrity having their true lives exposed. In the same way it was once difficult to imagine Rush Limbaugh sitting in his underwear stoned off his gourd on Oxycontin... it would undoubtedly shock this woman's clients to peer into the window of her real life. Gives you something to think about the next time you listen to a radio talk show, or get a telemarketing call, or call a singles line...or whatever it is you do in your unadorned life.