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Phone Booth

New Yorker Stu (Colin Farrell) has nice hair, even nicer clothes and the right attitude to get by in the Big Apple. But he's also a dirty rat who cheats on his wife (Radha Mitchell). Things go wrong when one day he answers a call in a phone booth - and the person on the other end knows just what he's up to. Joel Schumacher directs.

Lou Loumenick

New York Post

'Fearlessly throwing himself into a role that scared off Mel Gibson, Will Smith, Brad Pitt and Jim Carrey, Farrell (right) delivers a tour de force in this clever cross between Sweet Smell Of Success and Dog Day Afternoon. It's tautly directed by Schumacher (Bad Company) from a gimmicky script that veteran B-movie director Larry Cohen (It Lives) claims he originally pitched to Alfred Hitchcock.'

Andrew O'Hehir

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