- Actors: Colin Farrell, Kiefer Sutherland, Forest Whitaker, Radha Mitchell, Katie Holmes
- Directors: Joel Schumacher
- Writers: Larry Cohen
- Producers: David Zucker, Eli Richbourg, Gil Netter, Ted Kurdyla
- Format: NTSC
- Language: English, Swahili
- Number of tapes: 1
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- Studio: Fox Video
- VHS Release Date: Jan 25 2005
- Run Time: 81 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (182 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B0000V46OA
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #8,632 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Les réalisations de Joel Schumacher, 8MM, Batman Forever, demandent souvent beaucoup d’indulgence aux spectateurs. La Cabine, bon thriller comptant sur la présence de l’acteur irlandais Colin Farrell, échappe heureusement à ce verdict.
Dans une cabine téléphonique de New York, le téléphone sonne. Stu, jeune attaché de presse bouffi de prétention, ne peut s’empêcher de répondre. Grand mal lui en prend : à l’autre bout du fil, un psychopathe lui assure que s’il ne l’écoute pas, il sera abattu. Pour le convaincre, le fou tirera sur un proxénète passant par là, un meurtre dont la police tiendra évidemment Stu responsable.
Dans ce suspense téléphonique, la tension naît du huis clos imposé par le décor auquel Joel Schumacher donne habilement du relief en multipliant les jeux formels. Mais cette réalisation vivante sert également d’écrin au discours du serial-killer, partisan d’un nouvel ordre moral aux principes luthériens, qui stigmatise à travers Stu plusieurs maux de la société contemporaine : l’hypocrisie, la vanité et l’égoïsme. --Helen Faradji
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A single phone call can change a man's life…or possibly end it. Colin Farrell delivers a captivating, off-the-hook performance as Stu Shepard, a self-centered New York City publicist who suddenly finds himself on the deadly end of a high-powered rifle scope. Now it's a real-time race against the clock as Stu must outwit a psychotic sniper in a frantic scramble from phone booth to freedom. Directed by Joel Schumacher, this groundbreaking "tightly-made thriller" (Sidekick Magazine) co-stars Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes, and Kiefer Sutherland as the crazed gunman calling the shots, literally.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really, Really BAD!,
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This review is from: Phone Booth (DVD)
How bad can you get. This is one of the worst movies in history! There is no plot. The police wouln't just stand there, they would all go out and storm the booth. This movie isn't realistic at all.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not an entire waste of 81 minutes.,
By Amanda Richards (Georgetown, Guyana) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (HALL OF FAME) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Phone Booth (DVD)
This is a movie that I put off watching for a long time, because it sounded really boring. Trap a man in a phone booth, and talk him to death? Yawn.I finally watched it with the rationale that it is Colin Farrell in the booth, and therefore would not be another "My Dinner with Andre" kind of movie. While I've seen better movies, this one kept my attention, and I would never consider it to be 81 minutes of my life irretrievably lost. Colin Farrell is brilliant as Stu Shepard, but the rest of the cast fails to register on the "Wow" scale. Katie Holmes is cute, but horribly miscast, and Forest Whitaker won't be putting this one down as one of his better performances. Nobody else even registers, except of course the caller, who has a suitably creepy voice. The concept is intriguing, as a mystery caller with a wealth of technology and information seeks to right the wrongs of the world, one slime-ball at a time. Worse offenders must have crossed his path, but for some strange reason, he decides to target Shepard for the "crimes" of fantasizing and nearly cheating on his wife, for faking his success, and for not being nice to people in general. After Shepard manages to tip off the police, and they finally realize that something's not right with the scenario, the movie wraps up in an untidy hurry. The major let down for me was the prominent billing for Keifer Sutherland, even with his face in the cover shot, so you definitely knew something was wrong by the time you got to the end, said end being quite unsatisfying. Plot holes abound, but if you can get past them, you will enjoy Farrell's performance. Amanda Richards 7/12/04
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
What Could Have Been,
By David Acosta (Los Angeles, California United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Phone Booth (DVD)
As with many other films, Phone Booth fell short on its potential. Instead of expanding the horizons of the movie, the director (Joel Schumacher) decided to cut the film in half. Don't get me wrong; I was on pins and needles waiting to see what was going to happen next. But at the conclusion of the movie, I looked at my watch and noticed that it was only 88 minutes long. Katie Holmes' character was a waste at best. I kept waiting to see why the hell she was in the movie at all. However the two main stars (Colin Farrell and Keifer Sutherland) were superb. Keifer had me forget about his day job (the hero on 24). He was back to his evil ways, just where he is at his best. Colin Farrell seems to be getting stronger as an actor but he needs to do a movie that will let him spread his wings.
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