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Phone Booth (2003)

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Reviews Counted:182

Fresh:130

Rotten:52

Average Rating:6.6/10

Consensus: Quick pacing and Farrell's performance help make Phone Booth a tense nail-biter.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for pervasive language and some violence

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.... 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 [More]

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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The best way to describe Phone Booth is preposterous but entertaining.

Full Review Source: ReelViews | comment Comment
03/31/03
James Berardinelli
James Berardinelli
ReelViews
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Colin Farrell. Joel Schumacher... Will hot, new, and sexy rise to the top or will the forces of old, bloated, and boring rise up and swallow the young talent?

Full Review Source: Phantom Tollbooth | comment Comment
03/31/03
J. Robert Parks
J. Robert Parks
Phantom Tollbooth

Phone Booth exists to demonstrate that Colin Farrell can carry a movie ... good to know, I guess, but. .. superfluous information for anyone who’s had the good fortune to catch the under-seen Tigerland.

Full Review Source: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | comment Comment
03/31/03
Philip Martin
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Colin Farrell's best performance to date!

Full Review Source: Supercala.com | comment Comment
03/30/03
John Venable
John Venable
Supercala.com

I wanted to call up director Joel Schumacher and say, 'One word: Flashbacks!' OK, I also wanted to say, 'Before Katie rushes down to the phone booth, don't you think she should take a long, hot shower?' But I didn't have his number.

Full Review Source: Kalamazoo Gazette | comment Comment
03/30/03
James Sanford
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette

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Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
03/30/03
Empire Magazine

An efficient and effective thriller, it does for phone booths what Speed did for buses, turning them into very scary places.

Full Review Source: Internet Reviews | comment Comment
03/29/03
Steve Rhodes
Steve Rhodes
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May have worked better as an 80s parable or with Larry Cohen behind the camera but it gets the juices pumping nonetheless.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
03/27/03
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

Interesting, contemporary, thought-provoking and above all entertaining in a smart way

Full Review Source: Dark Horizons | comment Comment
03/24/03
Garth Franklin
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons

A devilishly fun film, full of juicy performances, unrelenting tension, and a sense of unpredictability that lasts right up to the very end.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
03/23/03
Merle Bertrand
Merle Bertrand
Film Threat

Farrell is a dynamo. And Kiefer Sutherland, whose sniper role is essentially a voice on the phone, matches Farrell subtle shift for subtle shift.

Full Review Source: Rolling Stone | comment Comment
03/21/03
Peter Travers
Peter Travers
Rolling Stone
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03/21/03
Scott A. Mantz
Scott A. Mantz
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A flick that will absolutely keep your rump glued to the seat for 90-some minutes and force you from the theater discussing the fun you just had. And in my book that's always worth 8 bucks.

Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
03/18/03
Scott Weinberg
Scott Weinberg
eFilmCritic.com
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03/14/03
Rich Cline
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

An impressive genre entertainment -- forgettable but gripping; slight but deadly.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
02/26/03
Nev Pierce
Nev Pierce
BBC

after making a truly excellent film, Joel Schumacher has redeemed himself.a solid character piece to the action genre, and I can’t wait to see this film again.

Full Review Source: Mediasharx | comment Comment
11/27/02
Clint Morris
Clint Morris
Mediasharx

Essentially B-movie material jacked up to a hysterical pitch by Joel Schumacher.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
09/27/02
Kevin Courrier
Kevin Courrier
Boxoffice Magazine

For a straightforward, populist popcorn movie, you could do a lot worse than this. It's a clean, effective thriller.

Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | comment Comment
09/20/02
Jeremy Heilman
Jeremy Heilman
MovieMartyr.com

The stratagems that compel the film to stay put are as improbable as they are illogical.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
09/11/02
Kirk Honeycutt
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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