Phone Booth Movie Information

Movie Information

Overall Rank: 5238

Average Rating: 2.6/4

# of Ratings: 207

Theatrical Release Date: 04/04/2003

Language: English

Genre: Thriller

MPAA Rating: R

Director: Joel Schumacher

Actors: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell, Katie Holmes, Paula Jai Parker

Plot: A sniper pins a man down in a phone booth, telling him if he hangs up the phone or disobeys him, he will die. -- Topher

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Rating of
2.5/4

Logan D. McCoy - wrote on 09/18/2023

The more ridiculous "Phone Booth" gets, the less intense it becomes. It's hard to keep a thriller interesting when it's this hard to believe.

Rating of
3/4

Indyfreak - wrote on 06/16/2018

An intense thriller based on a very simple yet effective high concept premise.

Rating of
3/4

Matthew Brady - wrote on 05/07/2014

The film is about a sniper pins a man down in a phone booth, telling him if he hangs up the phone or disobeys him, he will die. This movie was well shot and the cast did a great job in there roles.

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Yojimbo - wrote on 05/21/2012

When an obnoxious and self-serving PR guy answers a ringing phone in a booth on a busy Manhattan avenue, his world is turned upside down. Joel Schumacher is one of the consummate Hollywood hacks but here revisits the spirit of one of his better efforts, Falling Down. It essentially expands on an idea touched on in Fight Club, in that a someone may actually be forced to become a better person on pain of death. It's the kind of pulpy pot-boiler that is often wrecked by unnecessary padding, but the brisk no-nonsense approach here combines with it's short length to make quite an entertaining off-beat thriller. Kiefer Sutherland's vengeful psychopath who is only represented by a voice-over and a red dot for the majority of the film is the stand-out performance, but everyone involved acquits …

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