Phone Booth

Phone Booth (2003)

  • 71% of critics liked it
    (185 reviews)

  • 63% of users liked it
    (385,583 ratings)

One man's life is thrown into turmoil by picking up a telephone in this claustrophobic thriller. Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) is a brash, cynical, and self-centered public relations man who juggles a busy career with both a wife, Kelly (Radha Mitchell), and a mistress, Pamela (Katie Holmes). Stu… More

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R, 1 hr. 20 min.
Directed By
Joel Schumacher
Written By
Larry Cohen
Genres
Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Apr 4, 2003 Wide
On DVD
Jul 8, 2003
20th Century Fox

Critic Reviews

  • Andrew Sarris, New York Observer

    Raises more questions than it answers as it attempts to convince us that a moralistic sniper would torture a sleazy publicist into tears of guilt and remorse over what amounts to a few paltry, venial sins.

  • Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

    If this sounds like a Kafkaesque spoof thrown together for the annual Publicists Guild of America luncheon, Larry Cohen's script is only occasionally that clever.

  • David Edelstein, Slate

    The premise is admittedly a killer -- fun to think about, fun to see realized, not so fun to see screwed up in the last half-hour.

  • Rex Reed, New York Observer

    A first-tier thriller, Phone Booth will make you think twice before you ever enter a public phone facility again, but while it curls your hair, it makes you think.

  • Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

    [A] taut thriller that hooked me from the outset.

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  • Directors C


    [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] I never dreamt until I saw Phone Booth that I could sit and watch a movie where a guy has a telephone conversation that almost never ends for over an hour. This movie is intense, thrilling and has a… More

  • Tyler C


    Pure definition of underrated! A thrilling pressure cooker showcasing one of Colin Farrell's best performances, and is also the only Joel Schumacher film I've liked, too.

  • Dan S


    An entertaining fast-paced thriller concerning a slimy publicist (Colin Farrell) who gets caught in a phone booth and is forced to stay on the line with a crazed voice on the other end of the line (Kiefer Sutherland) who has threatened to kill his loved ones if he does not do exactly… More

  • Josh M


    Phone Booth is an wonderfully absurd and enertaining thiller that makes no sense, but is unrelentingly funny and packed with weird twist and turns. Joel Shumacher is much stronger when he's absurd and random, and he is here. Coin Farrell is a hapless jerk, who's held… More

  • Eric A


    Very thrilling and suspenseful. Pretty short film, so it gets right into the action from the get go.

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