Colin Farrell got one of his first big breaks in “Phone Booth,” a nifty thriller from director Joel Schumacher (working from a pitch-perfect script by genre legend Larry Cohen). In it, he plays a self-absorbed and womanizing publicist who gets a phone call from a mysterious killer on New York City’s last public phone. It’s a great conceit, especially with the added implication of his time running out as the technology that he’s being trapped in runs out, too. (Times, they are a-changin’.)
Thanks to Farrell’s performance, the tight direction, and truly menacing voicework by Kiefer Sutherland as the killer, this thoroughly modernized the Hitchcock concept for a new generation.
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