from 20th Century Fox
Directed by
Joel
Schumacher
Starring
Colin
Farrell (Stuart Shepard)
Forest
Whitaker (Captain Ramey)
Katie
Holmes (Pamela McFadden)
Radha
Mitchell (Kelly Shepard)
Kiefer
Sutherland (The Caller)
Tia Texada
Mia Cottet (Lu Ann)
Svetlana Efremova (Sheila)
Richard T. Jones (Jona)
Seth William Meier (Officer MacDuff)
Keith Nobbs (Adam)
Written by
Larry
Cohen
Rated: 
(for pervasive language and some violence) |
 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.
...from the Official
Site
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