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Phone Booth
Release
Date: March 14th 2003
Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox
Certificate: TBC
Starring: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell,
Katie Holmes
Director: Joel
Schumacher
Running Time:
TBC
A
slick New York publicist, who answers a ringing phone in a public call box,
gets himself into a whole lot of trouble with a sniper at the other end
of the line.Stu Shepard (Farrell) is the kind of guy who lies for a living. He’s a New York publicist and agent trying to make his way up the ladder to work with the big stars. He spends his days juggling calls on his mobile phones on the streets of Manhattan and making the right noises to the right people. He’s also taken an excessive interest in an up-and-coming actress Pamela (Katie Holmes), but he only ever calls her from a pay phone since his wife Kelly (Mitchell) checks all of his mobile bills.
Today,
however, is going to be different. After calling Pamela, Stu hangs up the
phone, but as he is about to walk away it begins to ring. Like most people,
Stu can’t just leave a ringing phone so he answers it. And that’s
when his problems begin.On the other end of the line a voice tells Stu that he has a high powered sniper’s rifle trained on him, and that he is not to hang up or leave the phone booth – or he will be killed. Stu obviously thinks that someone is kidding with him, until the caller reveals that he knows Stu’s name, who he is, and what he does. He also ups the stakes by shooting an innocent bystander.
From
that point on, all hell breaks loose, as the NYPD arrive on the scene led
by Capt Ramey (Whittaker), who believes that Stu, holed up in the booth,
is the killer. With the police surrounding him, and both Pamela and Kelly
in the crowd, the sniper reveals what he wants from Stu – and it’s
not your standard ransom demand. Three quarters of this film is set in one place, however director Joel Schumacher manages to make a film that isn’t at all static. His choice of Colin Farrell as the target is perfect, as a more well known face might have had us less worried about the outcome. The best thing about this film, however, is the cool, calm and collected sniper voiced inimitably by Kiefer Sutherland.
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