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...Phone Booth...
...used car salesman type who any dummy can tell is really insecure inside. Perhaps that’s why he’s cheating on his wife of less than a year with one of his clients, Pam (Katie Holmes). Stu calls Pam every day from the same phone booth, since his wife is on to him and has been checking his cellular bills. (Quick note to Dawson’s Creek fans and guys who might drop eight bucks on this flick just to see Holmes: she gets less screen time than Drew Barrymore in Scream...
Unfortunately for Stu, a psychopath has bugged that phone booth and listens to the conversations of all who use it. And, in an effort to rid the world of depravity, he’s decided to kill the immoral people he hears using that phone (think Seven...
After Stu hangs up the receiver in the phone booth one afternoon, and the phone rings. The same artificial voice from Scream tells him, “Isn’t it funny? You hear a ringing phone and it could be anyone. But a ringing phone begs to be answered.” But unlike Scream, this voice doesn’t chill the bone. It tickles the funny bone...
...voice goes on to inform Stu that he will be shot by a sniper if he leaves the booth. Unfortunately, the camera is also stuck in the phone booth. Now, this is a pretty nifty idea, filming an entire movie around one phone booth. Too bad Joel Schumacher traps us inside the glass with a whimpering Stu and an annoyingly conventional bad guy (Sample interaction: “Please please please, don’t do this to me! Please!” “No Stu! It’s too late...