
A ringing phone has to be answered.
Plot outline
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Cast
- Colin Farrell
- Kiefer Sutherland
- Forest Whitaker
- Radha Mitchell
- Katie Holmes
- Paula Jai Parker
- Arian Ash
- Tia Texada
- John Enos III
- Richard T. Jones
- Keith Nobbs
- Dell Yount
- James MacDonald
- Josh Pais
- Yorgo Constantine
- Colin Patrick Lynch
- Troy Gilbert
- Richard Paradise
- Seth William Meier
- Svetlana Efremova
- Billy Erb
- Domenick Lombardozzi
- Maile Flanagan
- Tom Reynolds
- Julio Oscar Mechoso
- Karara Muhoro
- Zidu Chen
- Shu Lan Tuan
- Dean Cochran
- Amy Kowallis
- Tory Kittles
- Bruce Roberts
- Tyree Michael Simpson
- Dean Tarrolly
- Mary Randle
- Paul Fontana
- Michael Arturo
- Jane Bordeaux
- Phil Paul Call
- Mia Cottet
- Conor Dean Smith
- Ben Foster
- Manley Henry
- Enrique Hernandez
- Jared Huckaby
- Chris Huvane
- Joshua Kalef
- James Madio
- Daniel Mandehr
- Rana Morrison
- Kimberly Ponsot
- Emmett Ivor Thomas
- Eddie Vincent
Plots
Publicist Stuart Shepard finds himself trapped in a phone booth, pinned down by an extortionist's sniper rifle. Unable to leave or receive outside help, Stuart's negotiation with the caller leads to a jaw-dropping climax.
Stu Shepard is a fast talking and wise cracking New York City publicist who gets out of trouble and lies with his clever charm, connections, and charisma. Stu's greatest lie is to his wife Kelly, who he is cheating on with his girlfriend, Pam. Upon answering a call in a phone booth in belief it is Pam, Stu is on the line with a dangerous yet intelligent psychopath with a sniper rifle. When realizing it is not a joke, Stu is placed in a powerful mind game of wits and corruption. The New York City Police eventually arrive thereafter and demand Stu comes out of the phone booth- but how can he when if he hangs up or leaves the booth he will die?
Stu Shepard is an arrogant publicist who thinks he has the whole world in his hands. Every day he uses the same phone booth to call the woman he is cheating on his wife with. But on the last day, before this particular phone booth is demolished, the phone rings. Stu naturally answers the phone, only to find the caller on the end is an invisible sniper who knows everything on Stu, including his relationships. The caller now has Stu as his hostage, who demands he comes clean with his wife.
After answering a phone call, a dishonest and arrogant N.Y. publicist finds himself trapped in a phone booth and being held hostage by a mysterious but dangerous blackmailer sniper, who demands him to admit his dishonest attitudes with his wife and with the people of his day-to-day.
Stuart hasn't been totally honest. In fact, he's about the most dishonest man you'll meet. Everyday, at the same time, he goes to a phone booth in NYC to call his girlfriend, so that his wife can't trace the phone call. Today is no longer just an ordinary day. Now, someone's calling him, leaving his life on the line.
A fiendish publicist finds himself being held hostage in a phone booth by an extreme moralist who watches his victim's every move through the scope of his high-power sniper rifle, while speaking to the publicist via the phone booth. The caller prides himself on using force to punish corrupt people by forcing them to admit all of their lies and sins through mental games, or killing them. At the same time, he eliminates other people as well; everyday people who are guilty of brutal dishonesty and/or corruption, such as a murderous street pimp and a pushy pizza man (all of which, if you look hard enough in the film, have a guilt link). The caller himself is corrupt, and uses it defeat other corruption. It is evil fighting evil in the phone booth.