Did you hear the one about the guy who answered a ringing pay phone, and the guy at the other end of the line said he was watching and had a high-powered rifle? Screenwriter Larry Cohen, one of the most consistently subversive writer-directors of the 1970s, spins this classic, cautionary urban legend into a sharp little entertainment that wraps it up right before the single-location gimmick wears thin. Directed with remarkable restraint by Joel Schumacher, this no-frills psychological thriller puts the screws to publicist Stuart Shepard (Colin Farrell), the bastard child of Sammy Glick and Sidney Falco. Striding through the streets of tourist-clogged Times Square tra...
Released:
2003
Rated:
R
Length:
80 mins