6 – Phone Booth (2002)
The one good thing about phone booths (or boxes, over ‘ere), is that they cost so much money, you’re often restricted to just a mere matter of minutes inside these grotty, seedy enclosures, that are about as personal and intimate as a goldfish bowl. So, in Joel Schumacher’s Phone Booth, we enter in to a really terrible, disastrous day for the egotistical publicist Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell), who is not only held hostage for a few hours, but he’s held hostage in, you guessed it, a bloody phone booth.
With an extortionist sniper keeping his finger on the trigger, and target locked right in between Stu’s eyes, what transpires is a tense, unrelenting affair that brings in a series of locals to stand by and watch as these unbelievable events unravel. They’re all having a great day no doubt, with various stories to tell their families about when they get home – but poor old Stu is having a terrible time of it.
