Phone Booth

Released 2002
Stars Colin Ferrell, Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes, Radha Mitchell, Kiefer Sutherland
Directed by Joel Schumacher

In this intense drama, which takes place in and around a single phone booth in New York City, slick New York publicist Stuart Shepard (Colin Farrell) picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth and is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed. Turns out Stuart is being watched by a rooftop killer with a sniper rifle -- and the little red light from an infrared rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.

Summary from www.netflix.com

This is a fun little thriller. It's very tight and bypasses the typical sideplots and twists that are thrown into thrillers like this. It almost puts the captain into a power play with another officer and there's some nonsense about the captain having a prior failure in a hostage situation, but those threads are thankfully forgotten. The movie is a little stretched at a trim 80 minutes, and it definitely couldn't have withstood the weight of those cliches. The funnest part of the movie for me was guessing the voice on the phone, but I couldn't get it. I thought it was Willem Dafoe, and I was really surprised to find out it was            --Bill Alward, August 21, 2003