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Phone Booth (2003)
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Reviews Counted: 182
Fresh: 130
Rotten:52
Average Rating: 6.5/10
Consensus: Quick pacing and Farrell's performance help make Phone Booth a tense nail-biter.
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release: Apr 4, 2003 Wide
Box Office: $46,524,362
Synopsis:
Red-hot superstar Colin Farrell ("Daredevil," "The Recruit") toplines the thriller PHONE BOOTH, from director Joel Schumacher. A phone call can change your life, but for one man it can also end it. Set entirely within and around the...
Red-hot superstar Colin Farrell ("Daredevil," "The Recruit") toplines the thriller PHONE BOOTH, from director Joel Schumacher. 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, PHONE BOOTH follows Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell), 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.
What do you do when you hear a ringing public phone? You know it's a wrong number, but instinct forces you to pick it up. A ringing phone demands to be answered, but when Stu Shepard takes the call, he finds himself hurtled into a tortuous game. Hang up, says the caller (Kiefer Sutherland), and Stu's a dead man.
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 (Forest Whitaker), 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. -- © Fox
Starring: Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker, Kiefer Sutherland, Katie Holmes
Starring: Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker, Kiefer Sutherland, Katie Holmes, Radha Mitchell, Tia Texada, Richard T. Jones
Director: Joel Schumacher
Director: Joel Schumacher
Screenwriter: Larry Cohen
Producer: David Zucker, Gil Netter
Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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Release:
Jul 8, 2003
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.31
- Full Frame - 1.33
- Dual Sided/Dual Layered
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - French
- Dolby Digital Surround - Spanish
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentary - 1. Joel Schumacher - Director
- Trailers
Interactive Features:
- Scene Selection
- Interactive Menus
Reviews for Phone Booth
Phone Booth est un excellent suspense, mais aussi un drame psychologique qui s’aura vous divertir.
... a solid 90 minutes of well-intentioned entertainment, but it will do more to fuel urban paranoia than it will to make anybody re-examine their lives.
As pure entertainment, Phone Booth succeeds as well as any movie released in the past few years.
Phone Booth is a much better movie than it has any right to be, given its absurd premise...
Joel Schumacher’s latest film is a thrilling, suspenseful 90 minutes... and it’s great entertainment.
Stationary in concept and at the same time manically unhinged and psychologically multilayered
Farrell and Sutherland deliver such strong performances that it's easy to overlook the script's melodramatic dialogue and insane lapses of reality.
Joel Schumacher's high-concept thriller is a prime example of what can go wrong when a promising idea is poorly executed.
'Enlace Mortal es un sólido thriller que representa una de las mejores opciones de escapismo que han llegado a las pantallas en lo que va del año. Verdaderamente recomendable.'
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