Phone Booth

Stu's wedding ring disappears and reappears between shots in the scenes leading up to his big speech.

When Stu moves his face in one of the close-ups you can see an ear piece in his left ear.

Although the film is set in New York, it was filmed in LA.

When we see news reporters arriving, there is a shot of a female reporter in the bottom left of the screen.

An LA public transport bus can be seen passing by in the background.

During the first couple of scenes inside the booth, the sticker on the receiver is worn out and barely readable.

After the first close-up the worn out section of the sticker is replaced with a new part, boasting clearly the name of the phone company.

When Stu is pulled out of the booth by Leon he knocks off the pieces of glass with his arm on top of the phone but, towards the end of the film the pieces of glass at sitting back on top of the phone.

When the 911 operator hangs up on Stu's cell phone call, we hear a dial tone on Stu's cell phone.

Cell phones don't have dial tones.

When Stu is walking outside Mario's restaurant, his cigarette appears and disappears between shots.

At the end of the film when Stu is giving his speech the position of Kelly's hair changes between shots to reveal and hide her (right) earring.

The baseball bat disappears and reappears several times from the street in front of the phone booth.

Captain Ramey has a New York City Police Department Detective's badge (wrong rank).

When the camera pans on Stu coming around a corner to the phone booth, extras (especially one with a box) can be seen standing very still and not moving.

Only when Stu comes around the corner do they start moving.

In one shot when Captain Ramey is talking to Stu, the other negotiator is behind him as he is telling him about his "lawyer".

The negotiator's badge chain tangles and untangles between shots.

The body of the deceased man disappears in the shot where the police cars come around the corner and park, but reappears in subsequent shots.

When the caller/sniper gets a bit twitchy, threatening to shoot Stu's wife and the police officers, we hear him cocking the rifle five separate times.

At no point do we hear him un-cocking the rifle between those moments, but he would have to physically cock and load the rifle every time he needs to fire a round.

But since there are two rifles in play (one left with the dead pizza guy, and one the Caller carries in the final scene), the Caller could easily have had an empty rifle that he cocked, seeing how he uses the sound to intimidate Stu.

In the moment where Stu is shot with a rubber bullet, you hear a shot ring out, and you see Stu shake, then fall to the ground.

Shortly after, when he is speaking with Captain Ed Ramey, you see the location on his chest where the bullet supposedly hits him, around the center of his chest, near the 3rd button from the top on his shirt.

Despite this, at the exact moment when he is shot, you cannot observe any indication that anything has hit him in that area.

There is no sign in the visible target area that anything has hit him at all.

His shirt shows no sudden movement which would indicate the hit of the bullet.

If a rubber bullet did truly hit him in that area, his shirt should at least crease at the area of contact, or possibly even rip.

At the end of the film when Stu is shown the body of the dead pizza guy, the 'dead body' can be seen breathing (throat is moving up and down).

When Stu's wife is with the police trying to talk Stu out of the phone both she tries to say "Do what they tell you to do, Stu!".

Instead what she actually said was "Stu what they tell you do!".

(When putting on the subtitles for the movie it confirms she was supposed to say "Do what they tell you to do, Stu!".

) The caller's intent to frame Stu for the murder of the pimp is flawed in several ways.

Firstly, Stu would have had no gunshot residue on his hand.

Second, hollow-point bullets do not fragment on impact, but flatten out to achieve a larger wound, so there would've been a bullet left behind.

Third, when investigating deaths by gunshots, the investigator fires comparison bullets to help match the bullet found in the victim or the wound caused by the bullet.

No red dot laser designed for targeting would be visible in daylight at the distance shown, especially on a dark surface such as the black suit jacket worn by Stu.

The red dot seen in the film is a crude optical effect.

As Stu falls to the ground the initial shot shows the phone receiver swinging on the end of the cord.

The reverse angle shot immediately after shows Stu still falling, but the receiver and cord are now hanging dead still.

When Leon is trying to get Stu out from the phone booth near the start of the movie, the camera pans around from a low angle, the camera operator is reflected in the glass of the booth.

A young man answers a public phone in an open space in New York City. A voice tells him that a rifle with a telescopic sight and silencer is trained on him and that he must do whatever he's told or he'll be killed.

I've been hearing about this one for a long time, hearing that it was a movie about a guy in a phone booth that actually managed to stay exciting and gripping throughout a 90 minute run time. So I sat down to watch it, challenging it to amaze me, thinking it wasn't possible for this movie to be any good.

Captivating director Joel Schumacher imprisons cocky publicist Colin Farrell (as Stu Shepard) in a Manhattan "Phone Booth" for almost the entire length of this eighty minute movie - and, the result approaches amazing. Mr.

Excellent screen play Joel Schumacher then Cinematography for Matthew Libatique good job .

Phone Booth has always been my favorite film directed by the late Joel Shumacher, I know a lot of people hate him just because he made Batman Forever and Batman and Robin. People say that he's a bad director, I can't agree when he made films like this, The Lost Boys, 8MM, The Client etc.

A mediocre crime thriller, which holds attention as much as to be watchable. Otherwise, the story is not bad.

I watched this movie because I was curious. I wasn't impressed by Farrell.

Phone Booth is one of the most underrated thriller movies. Its story is simple, gripping and thrilling.

An excellently thought out film. Despite only having one location, the film is exciting from start to finish.