The Operator (2001)

Not-bad debut film about a guy whose life goes to hell when he insults a vindictative (and apparently omnipotent) telephone operator. Works as a creepy persecution thriller for about an hour-plus; eventually, it loses its bearings and mutates into a Christian moral fable, but you can't get everything right your first time out. No naked Christa Miller though, what a gyp.

Grade: B-