Phone Booth (2003)
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
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 [Less]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker, Kiefer Sutherland, Katie Holmes, Radha Mitchell
Screenwriter: Larry Cohen
Producer: David Zucker, Gil Netter
Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams
DVD Info
Release:
Feb 13, 2007
Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Blue BD Case
- Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
- 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio - English
- Dolby Digital Surround Sound 5.1 - French, Spanish
- Subtitles - French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentaries - Joel Schumacher - Director
- Trailers - 1. Theatrical Trailer
- 2. High Definition Theatrical Trailers
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Reviews
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.'
Phone Booth is a movie completely disconnected from what suspense should be like.
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