Product Description

A single phone call can change a man's life or possibly end it. Colin Farrell delivers a captivating off-the-hook performance as Stu Shepard a self-centered New York City publicist who suddenly finds himself on the deadly end of a high-powered rifle scope. Now it's a real-time race against the clock as Stu must outwit a psychotic sniper in a frantic scramble from phone booth to freedom. Directed by Joel Schumacher this groundbreaking "tightly-made thriller" (Sidekick Magazine) co-stars Forest Whitaker Katie Holmes and Kiefer Sutherland as the crazed gunman calling the shots literally.Episodes-Bonus Features:**Widescreen Feature**Commentary by Joel Schumacher**Theatrical Trailer**Trailers (POTA '01 TRANSPORTER TRANSPORTER 2 LXG BEHIND ENEMY LINES KISS OF THE DRAGON SPEED)System Requirements:Running Time: 102 minsFormat: BLU-RAY DISC Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: R UPC: 024543414520 Manufacturer No: 2241452

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #51556 in DVD
• Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
• Released on: 2007-02-13
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: English, Spanish, French
• Subtitled in: Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 81 minutes

Amazon.com
By some lucky quirk of fate, Phone Booth landed on Hollywood's A-list, but this thriller should've been a straight-to-video potboiler directed by its screenwriter, veteran schlockmeister Larry Cohen, who's riffing on his own 1976 thriller God Told Me To. Instead it's a pointless reunion for fast-rising star Colin Farrell and his Tigerland director, Joel Schumacher, who employs a multiple-image technique similar to TV's 24 to energize Cohen's pulpy plot about an unseen sniper (maliciously voiced by 24's Kiefer Sutherland) who pins his chosen victim (a philandering celebrity publicist played by Farrell) in a Manhattan phone booth, threatening murder if Farrell doesn't confess his sins (including a potential mistress played by Katie Holmes in a thankless role). In a role originally slated for Jim Carrey, Farrell brings vulnerable intensity to his predicament, but Cohen's irresistible premise is too thin for even 81 brisk minutes, which is how long Schumacher takes to reach his morally repugnant conclusion. --Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker
Colin Farrell, with an impressive Bronx accent, as a slick P.R. agent trapped on the phone with a sharpshooting psycho. After the audience gets past the nostalgia of seeing a Bell Atlantic phone booth on a New York street (which was filmed mostly in L.A., of course), the punchy eighty-minute script by the low-budget horror master Larry Cohen and the energetic direction of Joel Schumacher make for some entertaining nonsense. Farrell is a joy to watch; he delivers his dialogue with a screwed-up energy that seduces everyone in sight. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

Phone Booth a Winner
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Not Bad
When this came out, it sounded silly. Kept putting it off until my movie queue dwindled. Gave it a second chance. Not bad. I couldn't quite give it four stars, but it was better than expected.

In some ways, the acting was almost too realistic (which makes it more life-like but less likely to win awards). For that, I would give four stars.

But, there is a lack of direction. Too many starts that are abruptly halted. On the flip side, it was pleasantly surprising that it ended when it did (i.e., short film) instead of dragging on and on like some competing films.

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?
With the sniper attacks taking place last year, two movies intended for the big screen were put on hold. One, LIBERTY STANDS STILL starring Wesley Snipes, made its way to video with little fanfare. The other was this tense thriller, PHONE BOOTH. It's understandable why the pair would hold off on release. Both feature a sniper shooting people, but with a reason (at least they thinks so) behind it. For once movie studios did the right thing by taking into consideration the feelings of others before rushing out a film to capitalize on someone else's tragedy. That being said, on to the show.

Colin Farrell is Stu Shepard a scum of the Earth publicist. He tags on a student to help him fend off or connive during his phone calls, he leads his clients around with false promises, he bends the rules to get what he wants and he has a girl on the side he's been trying to bed down for weeks. His life changes when he answers the phone booth he uses to make his daily call to her (his wife could trace the calls on his cell phone).

The caller knows all there is to know about Stu. All of the details listed above are known and he lets shares with him this fact. Stu threatens to hang up but the caller manipulates him into staying on the line. They talk. Eventually the caller reveals that he is the man behind a recent series of killings of high profile individuals throughout the city, each by a phone. He presented each with a chance to make up for their misdeeds. None took the chance and so each died. Now it is Stu's chance.

As the conversation goes on, a pair of "escorts" tries to get Stu to relinquish the phone booth. But he knows that should he do so, he is a dead man, a red laser sights dot already shown to him. When the girl's "manager" comes over and attempts Stu to get out, the caller shoots the man dead in the street.

No one notices until it's all over. The girls insist that Stu was the man who shot him that they saw a gun. Police called on the scene treat this as a hostage situation, thinking that Stu is armed. Captain Ramey (Forest Whittaker) attempts to talk Stu out of the booth to no avail. Stu wants to keep anyone else from being killed and to find out what the caller wants of him.

What he wants is nothing more than for Stu to purge himself of his demons. To admit his faults to any and everyone. But most importantly he wants him to admit it to his wife and to the girl he has been hitting on.

The breakdown of this character is the heart and soul of this movie. And Farrell does it in a performance that is outstanding. He brings off the smug, cocky attitude of the character at the beginning only to have him melt slowly before our eyes. All the while, he tries to out maneuver the killer and it isn't until the films end that we get to see if it works or not. Not only that, the answer gives us the knowledge of whether or not Stu will have the chance to be redeemed.

The movie it a taut film that holds you in its grip from the first moment Farrell enters that booth. The claustrophobia of the booth relates well to the feelings the character experiences while hanging on the line.

One thing is certain. After watching this film, it is doubtful that anyone will ever pick up a ringing phone booth phone again.