'Phone Booth' answers the call

In Joel Schumacher's latest film, cell phones in Manhattan are like BlitzMail accounts at Dartmouth -- a requirement, a habit and a means of communication that hides our voices behind a faceless wall of technology. The film takes place entirely in midtown Manhattan, land of the cell phone-gripping consumer, the raucous prostitute, the wide-eyed tourist and the last standing phone booth in all of New York City. Doomed to be torn down in T minus 24 hours, the Bell Atlantic booth must first deliver to the chosen citizen a call from hell -- or at least a call from a voice that needs to stay in nightmares and out of reality: "If you hang up, I will kill you." And we're off on a tense, rapid, and tightly fastened ride through the trials, tests, wits, confessions and redemption of one man.