Movie Review Of Phone Booth. Review on Phone Booth Movie

Psst - This section will contain some inside trivia about the film.

Quotes - Good one liners from the movie.

Oops - Goofs From the movie.

Director - Joel Schumacher

Screenplay - Larry Cohen

Stu Shepard (Collin Farell) is what you would call as a modern day urban con man. He manipulates stories and sells them to newspapers around New York. He calls Pamela McFadden (Katie Holmes) from one particular phone booth in a busy street in New York. One day when he is in the phone booth he gets a call which he picks up. The Caller (Voice Of Kiefer Sutherland) tells him that if he hangs up, he will shoot him with a rifle which is aimed exactly at Stu. The only problem is that Stu can just hear the caller's voice but can not see him even though the caller can see each and every step of Stu. Slowly The Caller Starts to peek in to Stu'd life and many skeletons keep coming out of the closet. What starts as a simple conversation is now turned in to an entire media circus with the police and professional negotiators also dropping in. Low Budget yet immensely tight edge of seat movie. Doesn't Let the viewer budge for one second. One of the finest movies ever made. Don't miss this movie for the world. I couldn't write much about the screenplay as it will spoil the entire mood of someone watching the movie for the first time. Largely inspired from Die Hard (Part 1) and Mad City. Perfect casting of Colin Farell. Well Supported by Radha Mitchell, Forest Whitaker and Katie Holmes.

Psst -

1) Even though the film setting is New york, The Entire filming was done in Los Angeles.

2) Although filming took just 12 days, the release of the film was postponed by a little over a month due to Sniper attacks in various parts of USA. The First day of the film was however on November 2000.

3) Jim Carrey and Will Smith were both considered for the lead role.

4) Writer Larry Cohen originally told the concept of a film that takes place entirely within a phone booth to Alfred Hitchock in the 1960's. Alfred Hitchcock liked the idea, but he and Cohen were unable to figure out a plot reason for keeping the film confined to a booth. Once the idea of a sniper came to Cohen in the late 1990s, he was able to write the script in under a month.

Quotes

1) ''Why do you always keep calling me at the same time from a phone booth ?''

2) ''Don't even think about leaving that booth.''

3) ''If you have to ask, you're not ready to know yet.''

4) ''Isn't it funny, you hear a phone ringing and it could be anybody. A ringing phone has to be answered. Doesn't it?''

5) ''Whatever you do, don't look up.''

6) ''Who are you on the phone with? My psychiatrist.''

7) ''My two-thousand dollar watch is fake and so am I.''

8) ''I wanted to f her.''

Oops

1) The Biggest goof, although it did not hamper with the basic story, is that the entire film was shot in Los Angeles and not New York.