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The movie would have fallen apart without a good actor in his shoes, and it’s no surprise that now in the 2020s he’s re-emerging as a force to be admired. “Phone Booth” tasks Farrell with a lot, and he delivers. Watching this, there’s no forgetting that we’re witnessing a movie, but I didn’t mind their interactions are pleasant while still being tense.īoth Farrell and Sutherland are good here. He dismisses Stu’s coaxed insults when he must, and looks for clues between the lines. Some of the dialogue between he and Stu just works. But when he begins to suspect something fouler is afoot, he comes across as kind. He at first thinks Stu killed the pimp and acts appropriately. Sarcastic in some other roles like the Scwharzenegger vehicle “The Last Stand,” here he is fitting and believable. The police standoff is helmed by Forrest Whitaker, and he does a good job here. The killer is mad, but Stu is guilty too the film works because we believe both angles.įorrest Whitaker and Rhada Mitchell in “Phone Booth.” Photo: Fox 2000 Pictures A lazier film would have had Stu be the hero, pinned down by a madman. Like his fake $2,000 watch, status is possession to Stu. We believe his protestations that he does this just to ‘have the possibility’ to boost his ego. This movie is billed as a thriller, and earns it with tense scenes of Stu sweating it out in the booth, haggling with the killer on the line while a parade of cops show up, intent to believe it was Stu that killed the pimp (which would be debunked by evidence the movie explains away in varying degrees of incredulity).Īs the movie progresses, we learn things about Stu he uses people, mostly the various people he needs for his PR job, especially his gofer (Keith Nobbs), and a girl named ‘Pam,’ (Katie Holmes), whom Stu calls daily and hopes to hook up with even though he has a wife. It’s an effectively scary scene due to how commonplace and nondescript Schumacher films it. The killer organizes situations that force Stu to live up to his lies, which are believable due to Farrell’s acting, and he even shoots and kills a pimp who harasses Stu to show he means business. The film ends with the phone booth company setting up a similar booth in the same park.But the film doesn’t remove him from reproach. The man collapses out of frame in despair. The man looks to his right and sees the trapped man he saw on his way to the warehouse, who has strangled himself with the telephone cord. The man struggles in fear but cannot escape.

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The phone booth is carried by a forklift through the warehouse, which is full of phone booths containing decaying remains of other trapped citizens. The phone booth is lifted up in the air by a giant magnet and the truck drives away. After many hours the truck arrives at a massive underground warehouse.

The two men try to communicate but cannot.

Eventually the truck stops next to another truck also carrying a man stuck in a phone booth. He tries to scream for help from people, but everyone just smiles and waves. The man watches frantically as he is carted across town. They unbolt the booth and take it away on their truck, with the man still inside it.

Eventually a firefighter is just about to try to break open the glass roof of the phone booth when the phone booth company appears. Several people (including a strong man, a repair man and a police officer) try to open the door but it remains stuck. This gathers the attention of many passers-by who begin to congregate and watch the action. He tries desperately to get it open, but nothing works.Įventually two business men come by and try to help him out, but to no avail. The man realizes that the phone does not work, so he tries to leave, only to discover that the door is stuck. He enters the phone booth to make a call and the door slowly closes behind him. Later, a man takes his son to the school bus. The film opens with workmen installing a phone booth in the middle of a square. It was uploaded on YouTube in August 2019 by RTVE Archivo. The film won the 1973 International Emmy Award for Fiction, the only Spanish programme to have won it. In the 35-minute film, a man becomes trapped in a telephone booth, while passersby seem unable to help him. It first aired on 13 December 1972 on Televisión Española. La Cabina (English: The Telephone Box) is a 1972 television film directed by Spanish director Antonio Mercero, and written by himself and José Luis Garci, starring José Luis López Vázquez. In December 2021 a replica of the red phone booth was inaugurated as a tribute to the film and its director Antonio Mercero close by the filming location in Madrid.

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