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'''''Phone Booth''''' is a 2002 suspense film directed by [[Joel Schumacher]]. It is about a publicist, Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell), who finds himself held hostage in a phone booth in full view of the New York City public by a sniper (voiced by Kiefer Sutherland) who has uncovered him plotting an affair with Pamela McFadden (Katie Holmes), and wants him to change his ways. To prove his seriousness, the voice on the other end snipes a random bystander.
As Stu plays a very dangerous, hair trigger, game with the voice, the police show up and are perplexed by the panicked man who refuses to exit the phone booth. Thus begins a three way battle of wits as Police Captain Ed Ramsey (Forest Whitaker) tries to decipher Stu's situation.
One of the selling points of the movie during previews was that it is set in [[Real Time]], often using [[Split Screen]] techniques to show things going on at the same time. This came on the heels of ''[[24
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* [[Affably Evil]]: The Caller's demeanor is pleasant, but is clearly malevolent, with deity-level feelings of grandiosity.
* [[Ain't Too Proud to Beg]]: Stu can transition from cocksure confidence to sympathetic weeping in a matter of seconds.
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* [[Completely Missing the Point]]: [[Michael Bay]] was in talks to direct. Supposedly, the first thing he asked when meeting with the writers was "How do we get him out of the booth?" In fairness, he may simply have been asking how to ''end'' the film, but there's no way to be sure.
** Why didn't he just read the last few pages of the script?
* [[Combat Pragmatist]]: {{Spoiler|A rare non fighting example. When Stu is talking to the sniper, he secretly uses his cell phone to
* [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]]: The Sniper knows every trick in the hostage taking book.
* [[Deadly Delivery]]: Inverted; the villain {{spoiler|lures a pizza delivery man to his hiding place and kills him to fake his own suicide.}}
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