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Phone Booth

2002 film directed by Joel Schumacher

Film · TMDB

6.9

A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.

Released: 2003-01-0681 minDir: Joel SchumacherThriller, Crime

Cast

Colin Farrell as Stu Shepard
Kiefer Sutherland as The Caller
Forest Whitaker as Captain Ramey
Radha Mitchell as Kelly Shepard
Katie Holmes as Pamela McFadden
Paula Jai Parker as Felicia

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Ratings · OMDb

IMDb

7.1/10

300,750 votes

Rotten Tomatoes

72%

Metacritic

56/100

Rated: R
Awards: 1 win & 8 nominations total

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Key facts

Directed by: Joel Schumacher
Written by: Larry Cohen
Produced by: Gil Netter, David Zucker
Starring: Colin Farrell Forest Whitaker Katie Holmes Radha Mitchell Kiefer Sutherland
Cinematography: Matthew Libatique
Edited by: Mark Stevens
Music by: Harry Gregson-Williams
Production companies: Fox 2000 Pictures , Zucker/Netter Productions
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release dates: September 10, 2002 ( 2002-09-10 ) ( TIFF ) April 4, 2003 ( 2003-04-04 ) (United States)
Running time: 81 minutes
Country: United States

Key dates

Published: 2002

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: film
Genre: psychological thriller
Country of origin: United States
Original language: English language
Director: Joel Schumacher
Screenwriter: Larry Cohen
Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams
Production company: 20th Century Studios
Cinematographer: Matthew Libatique
Narrative location

Article

Phone Booth is a 2002 American psychological thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by David Zucker and Gil Netter, written by Larry Cohen and starring Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes, Radha Mitchell, and Kiefer Sutherland. In the film, a malevolent hidden sniper calls a phone booth, and when a young publicist inside answers the phone, he quickly finds his life is at risk.

Produced by Fox 2000 Pictures and Zucker/Netter Productions, the film premiered at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, and was set to be theatrically released in November 2002, but the D.C. sniper attacks in October 2002 prompted 20th Century Fox to delay the release of the film, and it was then released theatrically in the United States on April 4, 2003.