| | | Your life is on the line.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Aspect Ratio 1.33:1, French, Spanish, Dubbed, English, Subtitled, Director's Cut, Trailers
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.
"A tense, thought-provoking drama." Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News
"Farrell is a dynamo. And Kiefer Sutherland, whose sniper role is essentially a voice on the phone, matches Farrell subtle shift for subtle shift." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Editor's Note
Joel Schumacher (8 MM, FALLING DOWN) directs this suspense drama set in New York City's Times Square. A wannabe hotshot entertainment publicist who's more intent on posturing for his unpaid assistant than he is in actually working, Stu Shepherd (Colin Farrell) ducks into a phone booth to make his regular afternoon call to his girlfriend (Katie Holmes). Stu stops in the same phone booth at the same time every day to flirt with the young girl, who does not know that Stu is happily married with no intention of dating her seriously. When Stu says goodbye to his girl and sets down the receiver, he picks up a call from a threateningly sarcastic man with a deep voice. This man seems to have been tracking Stu's visits to this booth every day, and suddenly Stu knows that his secrets are no longer his own. Soon, the caller identifies himself as a sniper and begins shooting. Police are called in, and Stu must use his PR skills in a final test to get out of the booth, alive. This compelling drama, expertly crafted for maximum tension, will keep audiences nervously awaiting its outcome, unable to look away from the screen for even a moment.
| Features | Master & Commander Trailer | | Le Divorce Trailer | | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish Dolby Digital Stereo | | HBO "Making Of" Special | | Steven Soderbergh's "Making Of Solaris" Special | | Stills Of Solaris Screenplay | | Scene Selection | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | Director Commentary By Joel Schumacher | | Contains Widescreen and Full Screen Versions of Film | | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Interactive Menus |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 9/11/2007 |
| Running Time: 81 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2003 | | Catalog ID: 2008048 | | UPC: 00024543080480 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 2.35:1/1.33:1 [4:3] |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"...Schumacher keeps his camera in a state of high agitation, bumping and swirling around the spectacle of Farrell's motor-mouth frenzy..." 04/11/2003 p.52-3Rolling Stone
"...Director Joel Schumacher, with the help of the gifted cinematographer Matthew Libatique makes a tight, tense job of it....Farrell is a dynamo..." 04/17/2003 p.111 Total Film
"...[Farrell] makes lowlife media pimp Stu Shepard his own....A high velocity thriller..." 05/01/2003 p.100 Chicago Sun-Times
"...[Farrell] shows energy and intensity?" 04/04/2003 p.29 San Francisco Examiner 8 of 10
Colin Farrell keeps up a kind of frenzied panic for the entire film, and it's partially due to his presence that the thing works at all. I'm not certain of his future as a Great Movie Star, but with Phone Booth, The War Zone, Tigerland, Minority Report and stealing every scene in the mediocre Daredevil, he's off to a tremendous start. And there's no question that Schumacher is at a high point in his career. After spending millions making awful summer movies, he's making small inexpensive genre movies and clearly loving every minute of it. - Jeffrey Anderson
James Berardinelli's ReelViews 8 of 10
The best way to describe Phone Booth is preposterous but entertaining. Due in large part to tight editing, a brisk pace, and a high level of suspense, we are able to suspend our disbelief for about 80 minutes. Afterwards, even a moment's consideration will reveal an avalanche of plot holes, but it is a tribute to the filmmakers that these are not recognized until after the end credits have rolled. Hitchcock referred to this sort of film as a "refrigerator movie" (you'd think of a plausibility problem while getting a post-movie snack from the refrigerator), and he would appreciate what Schumacher has wrought here. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
For the voice of his sniper, he calls on Kiefer Sutherland, who also starred in Schumacher's The Lost Boys (1987), Flatliners (1990) and A Time to Kill (1996) and here takes the mostly (but not quite entirely) invisible role as a very useful favor to Schumacher--because if the voice doesn't work, neither does the movie. It does. I especially like the way the caller taunts Stu: "Do you see the tourists with their video cameras, hoping the cops will shoot so they can sell the tape?" - Roger Ebert
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