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Phone Booth, Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Katie Holmes (2002)
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Synopsis of the DVD Movie: Phone Booth
A phone call can change your life, but for one man it can also end it. Set entirely within and around the confines of a New York City phone booth, thriller follows Stu Shepard, a low-rent media consultant who is trapped after being told by a caller - a serial killer with a sniper rifle - that he'll be shot dead if he hangs up. A sudden and shocking act of violence near the booth draws the attention of the police, who arrive backed with a small army of sharpshooters. They believe that Stu, not the unseen caller of whom they remain unaware, is the dangerous man with a gun. The senior officer on the scene, Captain Ramey, tries to talk Stu out of the booth. But unbeknownst to Ramey, his team, the media circus that has flocked to the site - and Stu's wife, Kelly, and his client /prospective girlfriend, Pamela - the caller has them all in his high-powered rifle sights. As afternoon turns into evening, Stu, the embodiment of an unethical, self-serving existence, must now undertake a sudden and unexpected moral evolution. He is emotionally stripped naked by the caller. Stu's lies, half-truths, and obfuscation no longer matter. Instead, he must dig deep into his soul, find his strength and attempt to outwit the caller, taking the game to an even more dangerous level.
DVD Movie Rating for: Phone Booth
Rating 3 out of 5 stars
Movie Plot of: Phone Booth
A fiendish publicist finds himself being held hostage in a phone booth by an extreme moralist who watches his victim's every move through the scope of his high-power sniper rifle, while speaking to the publicist via the phone booth. The caller prides himself on using force to punish corrupt people by forcing them to admit all of their lies and sins through mental games, or killing them. At the same time, he eliminates other people as well; everyday people who are guilty of brutal dishonesty and/or corruption, such as a murderous street pimp and a pushy pizza man (all of which, if you look hard enough in the film, have a guilt link). The caller himself is corrupt, and uses it defeat other corruption. It is evil fighting evil in the phone booth.
DVD Production Details of: Phone Booth
Starring: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Katie Holmes
Director: Joel Schumacher
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Home Video
DVD Release Date: January 27, 2004
DVD Features:
Commentary by director Joel Schumacher
Theatrical trailer(s)
Full-screen and widescreen anamorphic formats
DVD Easter Eggs
None
Cast of the movie: Phone Booth
- Colin Farrell .... Stu Shepard
- Kiefer Sutherland .... The Caller
- Forest Whitaker .... Captain Ramey
- Radha Mitchell .... Kelly Shepard
- Katie Holmes .... Pamela McFadden
- Paula Jai Parker .... Felicia
- Arian Waring Ash .... Corky (as Arian Ash)
- Tia Texada .... Asia
- John Enos III .... Leon
- Richard T. Jones .... Sergeant Cole
- Keith Nobbs .... Adam
- Dell Yount .... Pizza Guy
- James MacDonald .... Negotiator
- Josh Pais .... Mario
- Yorgo Constantine .... ESU Commander
- Colin Patrick Lynch .... ESU Technician
- Troy Gilbert .... ESU Sniper
- Richard Paradise .... ESU Guy
- Seth William Meier .... Officer McDuff (as Seth Meier)
- Svetlana Efremova .... Erica
- Billy Erb .... Lars
- Domenick Lombardozzi .... Wyatt
- Maile Flanagan .... Lana
- Tom Reynolds .... Richard
- Julio Oscar Mechoso .... Hispanic Medic
- Kahara Muhoro .... Nigerian Vendor
- Zidu Chen .... Korean Husband
- Shu Lan Tuan .... Korean Wife
- Dean Cochran .... Reporter #1
- Amy Kowallis .... Reporter #2
- Tory Kittles .... Reporter #3
- Bruce Roberts .... Reporter #4
- Tyree Michael Simpson .... Doorman (as Tyree Simpson)
- Dean Tarrolly .... Newscaster
- Mary Randle .... Dispatcher
- Paul Fontana .... Dispatcher
- Mylo Carbia .... Working Girl #2
- Cathy Jo Cooke .... Newscaster #1 (uncredited)
- Mia Cottet .... Lu Ann (uncredited)
- Jared Huckaby .... 1st Officer (uncredited)
- Chris Huvane .... Wiseass (uncredited)
- Kim Posnett .... News Anchor (uncredited)
Photo Gallery of the movie: Phone Booth
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Reviews of the movie: Phone Booth
By some lucky quirk of fate, Phone Booth landed on Hollywood's A-list, but this thriller should've been a straight-to-video potboiler directed by its screenwriter, veteran schlockmeister Larry Cohen, who's riffing on his own 1976 thriller God Told Me To. Instead it's a pointless reunion for fast-rising star Colin Farrell and his Tigerland director, Joel Schumacher, who employs a multiple-image technique similar to TV's 24 to energize Cohen's pulpy plot about an unseen sniper (maliciously voiced by 24's Kiefer Sutherland) who pins his chosen victim (a philandering celebrity publicist played by Farrell) in a Manhattan phone booth, threatening murder if Farrell doesn't confess his sins (including a mistress played by Katie Holmes in a thankless role). In a role originally slated for Jim Carrey, Farrell brings vulnerable intensity to his predicament, but Cohen's irresistible premise is too thin for even 88 brisk minutes, which is how long Schumacher takes to reach his morally repugnant conclusion.
