Mojave Phone Booth (2006)

User Rating:

6.0/10   

Director:

John Putch

Writers:

John Putch (writer)
Jerry Rapp (writer)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

In the middle of the Mojave desert rests an abandoned phone booth, riddled with bullet holes, graffiti...

Plot Keywords:

Phone Booth | Break Up | Money Problems | Interlinked Stories | Las Vegas Nevada

Awards:

7 wins

Cast

Annabeth Gish	...	Beth
Steve Guttenberg	...	Barry
Christine Elise	...	Alex
Tinarie Van Wyk-Loots	...	Mary
Robert Romanus	...	Richard
David DeLuise	...	Michael
Missi Pyle	...	Sarah
Kevin Rahm	...	Tim
Larry Poindexter	...	Darrell
Joy Gohring	...	Glory
Jacleen Haber	...	Rachel
Lee Wilkof	...	Supervisor Marv
Jerry Rapp	...	Flower Guy
Nicole Sherwin	...	Casino Beauty
Carl Mazzocone	...	Bartender Dan

Runtime:

USA:88 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Company:

MPB Collective

Trivia:

Based on an actual phone booth (which accepted incoming calls) isolated in the Mojave Desert which gained an on line following. Callers from many countries dialed [phone] later [phone] to see who would answer (often people who hiked to the spot). The phone was removed at the request of the Mojave National Preserve in 2000 and per SBC policy the phone booth numbers were retired for good.

Quotes:

Greta: Could it actually be the sound of an alien craft?
Alex: It sounds more like an alien *crap*.

i wish i could swear that ALL the above comments have some connection to the making of this film...

but i can't... but i CAN give you a reflection on my experience of this film... it wasn't terrible. and, when deciding what to see, that should never be part of my criteria...there's LOTS of stuff out there. this was fairly amateurish writing bolstered by a few strong performances... and, even though it had a clever idea to springboard from, AND as 'original'(and this is definitely part of why i'm convinced people who helped make this movie are just trying to get 'free hype' on this site, which makes this i sore) as some other commentors said it was, it was, to be kind, not all that clever... for me, though, when it was over, it became an exercise in, 'ok, genius...what would make this movie BETTER...'. i mean, after all, it's EASY to pick something apart...much harder to put it together... i don't want to spoil it for anyone who'd still care to see this... EYE was intrigued, obviously... but it'll be obvious at the end of the movie who i'm speaking about when i say that they should have developed one of the central characters more...i never found out enough about THIS central figure... and that might've made it just cohesive enough so that i wouldn't've felt compelled to write this caveat...