Phone Booth (film)

Phone Booth
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJoel Schumacher
Written byLarry Cohen
Produced byGil Netter
David Zucker
Starring
CinematographyMatthew Libatique
Edited byMark Stevens
Music byHarry Gregson-Williams
Production
companies
Fox 2000 Pictures
Zucker/Netter Productions
Distributed by20th Century Fox
Release dates
  • September 10, 2002 (2002-09-10) (TIFF)
  • April 4, 2003 (2003-04-04) (United States)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$13 million
Box office$97.8 million

Phone Booth is a 2002 American psychological thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by David Zucker and Gil Netter, written by Larry Cohen and starring Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes, Radha Mitchell, and Kiefer Sutherland.

In the film, a malevolent hidden sniper calls a phone booth, and when a young publicist inside answers the phone, he quickly finds his life is at risk.

Produced by Fox 2000 Pictures and Zucker/Netter Productions, the film premiered at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, and was set to be theatrically released in November 2002, but the D.C. sniper attacks in October 2002 prompted 20th Century Fox to delay the release of the film, and it was then released theatrically in the United States on April 4, 2003.

The film received generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $97 million worldwide.