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Description: Genre: Crime & Thriller - Thriller / Theatrical Release: 2003 / Director: Joel Schumacher / Actors: Colin Farrell, ... more
Phone Booth (DVD) ... Kiefer Sutherland ... / DVD released 11 August, 2003 at 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen / For a film confined almost entirely to one tiny location, Phone Booth has been the centre of a lot of off-screen action: changing lead man from Will Smith to Jim Carrey to Colin Farrell, with various directors attached, and finally postponed as a result of the Washington Sniper attacks--and all this before its release. Still, Larry Cohen's taut 80-minute script finally hits the screens and, as public utility-based thrillers go, it's pretty gripping stuff. Colin Farrell plays slick and obnoxious PR man Stu Shepard who picks up a ringing payphone only to be informed by a mysterious sniper (Keifer Sutherland) that there's a gun pointed directly at him. What Stu initially believes to be a joke turns about to be a vendetta from the sniper who objects to married Stu's philandering ways, and it soon escalates into a prime-time TV siege. Joel Schumacher's energetic direction--employing some snappy editing and nifty split-screen techniques--helps distract from an uneven and often predictable plot. It's easy for the audience to think of a dozen ways this siege could be averted, but by upping the tension stakes Schumacher still makes it fun to watch. Colin Farrell gives a compelling central performance, which runs the emotional gamut from anger to fear to anguish and even carries off a cheesy absolution scene. Keifer Sutherland's husky baddie voiceover is not exactly the stuff of nightmares but, like the rest of the film, you could do a lot worse. As a pure popcorn thriller, Phone Booth hits all the right buttons. --Laura Bushell

Newest Review: ... pays off immensely due to some cracking performances and a fun, enigmatic script. The film revolves around Stu Shephard ... more

 ... (Colin Farrel), a high flying PR agent who lies and decieves everyone around him in order to get ahead, as well as to perpetuate this image of him as a hugely successful and effortlessly cool man. However, this all changes when he answers a phone booth that is ringing, and is told by a man on the other end of the phone (Kiefer Sutherland), that if he hangs up, he will be shot dead with a sniper rifle. It appears that the sniper has been following him for quite some time, and knows that he has been cheating on his wife Kel...more

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Premium Review Phone Booth (DVD): IS THERE ANYBODY THERE??? (1361 words)
by - written on 09/10/07 (Very useful, 121 readings)
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PHONE BOOTH ************* ***A ringing phone has to be answered*** ' Do unto others' is very much the cautionary tale here. Phone Booth is a Morality/Thriller. A concept Movie made in 2003, and starring Colin Farrell in a near on one man performance. Phone Booth is set In New York City, and it is set in real time.~ I am reviewing 'FILM ONLY'. ******** Synopsis. ******** *** The Film is set almost entirely in a Phone Booth and stars Colin Farrell as an Entertainment publicist/Entrepreneur who is on the up and up at the expense of anyone who gets in his way. Caught up in his own ...  Read the complete review

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Premium Review Just hang up!!! (977 words)
by - written on 06/10/07 (Very useful, 95 readings)
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This film was on telly last night & since I really could not sleep due to a late night take-away, which I sorely regretted as my tummy felt more swollen than usual, I decided to watch it. Story The story is actually very simple. We have this publicist, Stu (Colin Farrell), who is chatting away on his mobile phone to clients & people that work for him, brushing aside people that know him & annoy him as he goes, trying to blag some big money deals. He talks so fast it is hard to really follow what is happening, but soon enough we expect him to be dumbstruck. He enters the phone booth, which we already know is to be the centre of attention ...  Read the complete review

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Crowned Review Phone Booth (DVD): A ringing phone just has to be answered (1677 words)
by - written on 23/05/06 (Very useful, 194 readings)
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The Plot ----------- Colin Farrell answers a ringing phone on a busy New York Street. The voice at the other end warns him not to hang up or he will be shot… Cast ------ This is a film which relies on just two main characters (although there are more) and boasts superb central performances from its two key actors. This is just as well – it’s always a gamble pinning an entire film on just two characters – get the casting wrong and the whole thing falls apart. The main men are: ** Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell): Farrell is superb as the manipulative, selfish and thoughtless Shepard, who gradually breaks down under the pressure he is ...  Read the complete review

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Crowned Review I'd Love To Be Stuck In A Phone Booth With Colin Farrell ... (1796 words)
by - written on 01/06/03 (Very useful, 85 readings)
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I’m such a gigantic Colin Farrell fanatic. I’ve been waiting to see “Phone Booth” for what seems like forever. Anyway it was finally released a while back so I dragged my mate to watch it and all I can say is I was not disappointed and I am definitely more in love with Colin than I ever was ;) One of the things that convinced me to see this was the fact that it focuses on Colin Farrell for the majority of the movie. Now what else could a Farrell fan ask for? I had actually heard a great deal about this movie before it was made. Jim Carrey was originally lined up to play the main role, and supposedly it was going to be a comedy rather than ...  Read the complete review

theediscerning
Crowned Review Phone Booth (DVD): 25 and ei8ht (1695 words)
by - written on 01/05/03 (Very useful, 55 readings)
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This is a film that you will be reminded of again and again should you live in a city. How often is it that, when you walk past an empty phone box, the phone inside rings? You might in the past have been tempted to see if it is a wrong number, or something more interesting. Perhaps you would think again having seen Phone Booth. The movie starts with a silly bit of CGI showing you the route to the satellite your next call might take; this is the worst thing in the film though. The opening credits redeem the whole thing, anyway - huge horizontal tower blocks of lettering floating round Central Park, New York - one half expects Bernard Herrmann music swelling in ...  Read the complete review

 
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