Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
- sniper
- new york city
- psychopath
- terrorism
- real time
- publicist
- affair
- phone booth
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Colin Farrell
Stu Shepard
Kiefer Sutherland
The Caller
Forest Whitaker
Captain Ramey
Radha Mitchell
Kelly Shepard
- Katie Holmes — Pamela McFadden
- Paula Jai Parker — Felicia
- Arian Ash — Corky
- Tia Texada — Asia
- John Enos III — Leon
- Richard T. Jones — Sergeant Cole
- Keith Nobbs — Adam
- Dell Yount — Pizza Guy
- James MacDonald — Negotiator
- Josh Pais — Mario
- Yorgo Constantine — ESU Commander
- Directed
- Joel Schumacher
- Written
- Larry Cohen
Production
- Rating
- 6.9 / 10 · 4,312 ratings
- Studio
- Fox 2000 Pictures, Zucker/Netter Productions
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
