{"id":855,"date":"2003-11-23T17:04:04","date_gmt":"2003-11-23T17:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-855.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:18","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:18","slug":"phone-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2003\/11\/23\/phone-booth\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Phone Booth<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brilliant thriller about sleazy publicist Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) who picks up the ringing phone in a phone booth only to find a killer at the other end of the line.  The killer has been tracking Stu, and knows all his secrets and sins&#8230;and wants Stu to face up to them.  He has a high-powered rifle trained on Stu in the phone booth, and he won&#8217;t let him leave until Stu has confessed.  It&#8217;s a fabulously simple concept, executed with supreme confidence.  Apart from the opening scenes, which follow Stu on a walk through Manhattan towards the phone booth in question, the entire film is shot in and around that one, claustrophobic location.  At just over 80 minutes, the film doesn&#8217;t pad the story with sub-plots and diversions: it stays totally focused on Stu, the sniper, and the phone call.  The tension it builds is incredible, and it has a powerful climax to match.  Truly extraordinary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brilliant thriller about sleazy publicist Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell) who picks up the ringing phone in a phone booth only to find a killer at the other end of the line. The killer has been tracking Stu, and knows all his secrets and sins&#8230;and wants Stu to face up to them. He has a high-powered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_5_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}