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Phone Booth

Year:
Duration:
81 min
Genres:
Mystery | Thriller
IMDB rate:
7.1
Director:
Joel Schumacher
Awards:
7 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2003-04-04
Filming Locations: Los Angeles, California, USA
Earnings
Budget: $13,000,000
Opening Weekend: $15,021,088 (USA) (6 April 2003)
Gross: $46,566,212 (USA) (31 July 2003)
Cast
Actor
Character
Katie Holmes
Katie Holmes
Phone Booth
Colin Farrell
Stu Shepard
Kiefer Sutherland
The Caller
Forest Whitaker
Captain Ramey
Radha Mitchell
Kelly Shepard
Paula Jai Parker
Felicia
Arian Ash
Corky
Tia Texada
Asia
John Enos III
Leon
Richard T. Jones
Sergeant Cole
Keith Nobbs
Adam
Dell Yount
Pizza Guy
James MacDonald
Negotiator
Josh Pais
Mario
Yorgo Constantine
ESU Commander
Colin Patrick Lynch
ESU Technician
Troy Gilbert
ESU Sniper
Richard Paradise
ESU Guy
Seth William Meier
Officer McDuff
Svetlana Efremova
Erica
Billy Erb
Lars
Domenick Lombardozzi
Wyatt
Maile Flanagan
Lana
Tom Reynolds
Richard
Julio Oscar Mechoso
Hispanic Medic
Karara Muhoro
Nigerian Vendor
Zidu Chen
Korean Husband
Shu Lan Tuan
Korean Wife
Dean Cochran
Reporter #1
Amy Kowallis
Reporter #2
Tory Kittles
Reporter #3
Tyree Michael Simpson
Doorman (as Tyree Simpson)
Dean Tarrolly
Newscaster
Mary Randle
Dispatcher
Paul Fontana
Dispatcher
Michael Arturo
Policeman (uncredited)
Phil Paul Call
Driver (uncredited)
Mia Cottet
Lu Ann
Ben Foster
Big Q
Manley Henry
Business Man (uncredited)
Enrique Hernandez
Delivery Person (uncredited)
Jared Huckaby
1st Officer (uncredited)
Chris Huvane
Wiseass (uncredited)
Joshua Kalef
Bomb Squad (uncredited)
James Madio
Police Officer (uncredited)
Daniel Mandehr
Detective Kale (uncredited)
Rana Morrison
Woman in Street Crowd (uncredited)
Kim Posnett
News Anchor (uncredited)
Emmett Ivor Thomas
Extra (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
Screenwriter Larry Cohen originally pitched the concept of a film that takes place entirely within a phone booth to Alfred Hitchcock in the 1960s. 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.
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Director Joel Schumacher directed Batman Forever and Batman & Robin. Katie Holmes (Pam) went on to star in Batman Begins.
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Larry Cohen worked on the script for the movie Cellular (2004) while he tried to get his screenplay "Phone Booth" sold. In a New Yorker article, he says he wrote "Cellular" with the intention that it would be the direct opposite to "Phone Booth" ("Phone Booth" is about a man trapped on a phone in a booth, while "Cellular" is about a man who is still trapped on a phone but can go anywhere). However, his friends told him that he had written the same screenplay twice.
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Goofs
When Leon is trying to get Stu out from the phone booth near the start of the movie, the camera pans around from a low angle, the camera operator is reflected in the glass of the booth.
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During the first couple of scenes inside the booth, the sticker on the receiver is worn out and barely readable. After the first close-up the worn out section of the sticker is replaced with a new part, boasting clearly the name of the phone company.
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In one shot when Captain Ramey is talking to Stu, the other negotiator is behind him as he is telling him about his "lawyer". The negotiator's badge chain tangles and untangles between shots.
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Quotes
The Caller: It's not in your best interest to disconnect me...
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The Caller: [shouts] Say it!
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Stu: Stop this! I can't take this anymore.
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Faq
Q
How did The Caller orchestrate everything?
A
The Caller admits to Stu that he had been following him for some time. Learning his habits, and his intimate details. So The Caller knew that Stu always stopped at that particular Phone Booth to call Pam at certain points in the week. So the caller planted a Sigma 380 in the overhead light inside the phone booth on one of Stu's regular days where he takes a trip to that booth. Next, The Caller makes his way to the apartment and sets up all his ammunition, and his rifle. Next, The Caller ordered the pizzas for Stu and likely told the delivery guy that if he didn't want them, to bring them to an alternate address (the address where the Caller was). Once Stu refused the pizzas, the delivery guy would bring the pizzas to The Caller and the Caller would likely take him captive until the events of the film unfold. Once The Caller found out the police were on their way to the apartment, he would slash the Pizza guy's throat and grab his secondary rifle (or perhaps his actual rifle and the one seen in the apartment was a decoy) and make his exit.If The Caller truly wanted to get away with it and frame the pizza guy, then the rifle in the apartment would have been the one used and The Caller would have had a back-up. Otherwise, the rifle in the apartment was a decoy and he took his actual rifle with him because he simply wanted to escape the scene. Either theory works and it's up to the viewer to decide how it may have played out. While The Caller revealed he was still alive to Stu, he only revealed himself after Stu had been given a dose of morphine and so Stu may have forgotten all about it or shrugged it off as a dream.
Q
Who is the uncredited narrator at the beginning of the movie?
A
It is veteran voice actor Kevin Michael Richardson.
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