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Mar 13, 2013 · Halle Berry stars as an operator at a 911 call center in Los Angeles. Dressed in a poodle wig and polo shirt, Berry spends most of the movie seated behind a desk. Her world — "the Hive," as her co-workers call it — is compact and work-centric. Even her boyfriend, a handsome LAPD officer (Morris Chestnut), is a colleague. A framed photo ...
- Phone Booth
"Phone Booth" is a religious fable, a show biz fable, or...
- The Machinist
"If you were any thinner," Stevie tells him, "you wouldn't...
- Phone Booth
Mar 15, 2013 · A veteran operator for an emergency call-center, Jordan (Halle Berry) saves lives daily as part of her job, but when a young woman's frantic report of a prowler ends tragically, Jordan is...
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- Brad Anderson
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- Halle Berry
Dec 1, 2020 · With a good blend of sci-fi and slasher components, The Call hits the sweet spot for lovers of serial killer flicks, tight thrillers, and twisty science fiction.
- Jade Budowski
- 2 min
The Call delivers taut no-frills thrills for two-thirds of its brisk, hour-and-half running time. But the plot falls apart spectacularly as soon as Halle leaves the 911 control room and the ...
- Telephone Time Travel
- Gothic Shamanistic Vibes
- Acting and Suspense
The Callbegins with a young woman named Kim Seo-yeon (Park Shin-hye) getting dropped off at an ornate countryside house with creepy gothic vibes. After getting situated, Seo-yeon hears the rings of a clunky landline telephone. She picks it up, and hears the pleading cries of another young woman named Oh Young-sook (Jeon Jong-seo), who insists that ...
Time-travel murder mysteries aren’t exactly novel. The Call is actually adapted from a Puerto Rican-British film named The Caller; Hollywood makes many instances of the subgenre. Superfans of Korean media might also feel that The Call evokes hit K-drama Signal, which featured a walkie talkie that allowed a detective in 1985 to communicate with a cr...
Beyond worldbuilding, The Call also features an outstanding performance from Jeon Jong-seo. This is particularly notable given Jeon’s only prior acting role was as Hae-mi, the female lead of Lee Chang-dong’s critically acclaimed film Burning. Jeon plays Young-sook with a degree of intense unhingedness that not only contributes to The Call’s chillin...
Mar 12, 2013 · Receiving a 911 call from a teenage girl in the midst of a home invasion, Jordan concocts an elaborate strategy to help her evade the predator, but gives the girl away by hitting the redial...
Parents need to know that The Call is a gripping but very violent thriller about a heroic 911 operator trying to rescue a kidnapped teen girl. The girl is punched, beaten, stripped to her bra, and briefly tortured. Her age isn't specifically mentioned in the movie, but actress Abigail Breslin is 16. There….
