Great Performances and Dialogue Breathe Life Into Landline's Middle-Class Problems

by Kathy FennessyI got 99 problems, and being middle class ain't one. Amazon Films
Gillian Robespierre, writer-director of Obvious Child, "the first romantic comedy I can think of that centers around an abortion," reunites with SNL alum Jenny Slate in Landline, a serio-comic take on secrets and lies in Giuliani-era Manhattan.Frustrated adman Alan (John Turturro) is keeping something from hypercritical wife Pat (Edie Falco); engaged daughter Dana (Slate) can't resist a man from her past; and teen