Phone Booth

Always liked this one

I’m always a fan of one setting movies. I like the one room/building, etc. types.

Very entertaining for the time it was released. Would it be as succesfull today?...doubt it. CGI and remakes have monopolized hollywood. Maybe a studio like A24 could pull off something similar. Get Jordan Peele involved and you might have something.

Glad it ended up being Farrell instead of Carrey. IIRC Stu's character was a bit full of himself and I think Farrell can pull that persona off way better than Carrey. Carrey's past work would have made it hard to see him in a role like this.

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I’m always a fan of one setting movies. I like the one room/building, etc. types.

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We should dive deep on these. Phone Booth, Buried, Panic Room, The Room, Inside Man, 10 Cloverfield Lane, ...

I wouldn’t put Inside man in the category. There’s a ton of different settings the plot takes place at

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We should dive deep on these. Phone Booth, Buried, Panic Room, The Room, Inside Man, 10 Cloverfield Lane,

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Don’t forget

Rope - 1948
12 Angry Men - 1957
Reservoir Dogs - 1992
Clerks - 1994
The Breakfast Club - 1985

There’s literally dozens of big movies that used only one location (save for a few other scenes).

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I was thinking the same thing, but I think it's safe to at least call it a hybrid. The meat of the movie is definitely all one setting. It's one of my favorite movies and really put Clive Owen higher on my list of actors to watch. Him plus Denzel is a fire one two combo.

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Idk I feel like if you’re gonna fit in that category, it’s going to be very obvious and very much a choice by the director to do so.

Inside man is still structured very traditionally. Even inside the bank there are multiple settings within.

I think there’s a difference between that and basically making a “bottle episode” movie like Panic Room, Locke, or Buried with Ryen Reynolds


I agree it’s a great movie, and such a fun movie to rewatch.

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Not a chance. Straight to streaming service if it was released today. Which is a shame

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I mean to be fair, a movie about a phone booth in 2021 would be weird as frick

This movie came out possibly the last year it would’ve made any sense for it to come out and have the plot be set in the same era

ETA also this kind of movie isn’t the kind being squeezed out. Something this cheap could easily get made today. It’s the middle class budgeted movies that are hard to make now. Studios would rather either take the low risk high pay out options like horror or indie A24 type movies, or go all out on a tentpole with higher risk and much much higher reward