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Phone Booth

2003, Movie, R, 80 mins

Phone Booth: Review

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 him through a high-powered rifle? Screenwriter Larry Cohen spins this classic urban legend into a sharp little entertainment. Directed with remarkable restraint by Joel Schumacher, this no-frills psychological thriller puts the screws to a New York City publicist (Colin Farrell) who finds himself hangin' on the telephone, caught in the cross-hairs of a psycho's gun. Read the complete review for Phone Booth

Phone Booth: Cast & Details

Year: 2003
Rated R

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Cast
Colin Farrell: Stu Shepard
Kiefer Sutherland: The Caller
Forest Whitaker: Captain Ramey
Radha Mitchell: Kelly Shepard
Katie Holmes: Pamela McFadden
Paula Jai Parker: Felicia

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Phone Booth: TV Guide News

Cellular Scribe's Phone Phobia | Today's News: Our Take | 1/12/2005
How's this for a Hollywood believe-it-or-not? Cellular and Phone Booth scribe Larry Cohen is phonophobic. "Telephones are the scourge of modern existence," Cohen tells TV Guide Online. "They bring this voice from nowhere into your life — that can be frightening. Anybody can call you. "When I start to work on a script," he adds, "I take the phone off the hook and put it in a drawer until I'm finished working. I don't want my train of thought interrupted. Now that everybody's got a cell phone, there's no privacy or peace... [there's] people on phones in the car, in restaurants, even in public rest rooms! That's why I don't have a cell phone — I'm afraid someone might call me." The 66-year-old veteran writer and director, whose maverick movies include the killer-baby picture It's Al read more

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