Please Call Me

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Please Call Me, is a 2010 Egyptian movie, directed by Khaled Youssef, and starring Amr Abdel Gelil, Ghada Abdel Razek, Dalia Ibrahim, with a runtime of 115 minutes. Content rating: R.

Overview

Please Call Me is an Egyptian comedy-drama film that follows Ibrahim Toshkee, a talentless but relentlessly optimistic young man from Cairo's margins who is convinced he is destined for stardom as an actor. When reality repeatedly shatters his illusions, Ibrahim turns to his street smarts and cunning to survive, embarking on a series of schemes — from selling unauthorized mobile phone calls to setting up an illegal satellite network — that land him in one crisis after another. His personal life is equally tangled: he is in love with his neighbor Abla but simultaneously entangled with the disreputable Ashgan, with whom he has fathered a child he refuses to acknowledge. The film is a sharp and tender portrait of ambition, self-deception, and survival in the margins of Egyptian society.

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