Hitchcock liked the idea, but the project did not move forward, because the two men were unable to devise a plot which explained why the action had to be restricted to the one location. In the 1960s, Larry Cohen pitched Alfred Hitchcock an idea for a film which took place in real time, entirely within the confines of a telephone booth. Jared Leto as Bobby (in a deleted scene).Radha Mitchell as Kelly Shepard, Stu's wife.Katie Holmes as Pamela "Pam" McFadden, Stu's girlfriend.Forest Whitaker as Captain Ed Ramey, a police captain who gives assistance to Stu in his conflict against The Caller, but suspects him as the killer.Kiefer Sutherland as The Caller, an unnamed, malevolent, but scheming killer and trained sniper, who calls Stu in the phone booth, and starts to threaten his life.Colin Farrell as Stuart "Stu" Shepard, a selfish and dishonest publicist who becomes a victim of a mysterious caller who threatens to kill him.Later, the pay phone rings and another man answers. Stuart gets medical treatment at a local ambulance as he does, the real caller passes by, warning Stuart that if his newfound honesty does not last, he will return, before disappearing into the crowd. As the police bring down the body, Stuart identifies it as the pizza delivery man from earlier. Stuart regains consciousness the police fired only rubber bullets, stunning but not harming him. The police fire upon Stuart, while a SWAT team breaks into the room that the caller was tracked to, only to find a rifle and a man's corpse. Desperate, Stuart grabs the handgun and leaves the booth, begging for the sniper to kill him instead. Stuart warns the caller that the police are on the way, and the caller replies that if he is caught, he will kill Kelly. Stuart's confession provides sufficient distraction to allow the police to trace the payphone call to a nearby building. Meanwhile, Stuart continues to confess to everyone that his whole life is a lie, to make himself look better than he really is. Stuart secretly uses his cell phone to call Kelly, allowing her to overhear his conversation with the caller she quietly informs Ramey of this.
The caller then orders Stuart to choose between Kelly and Pam, and the woman he does not choose will be shot. As Kelly and Pam both arrive on the scene, the caller demands that Stuart tell Kelly the truth, which he does. Stuart tells the caller that there is no way they can incriminate him, but the caller draws his attention to a handgun planted in the roof of the phone booth. NYPD Captain Ed Ramey seals off the area and negotiates to make Stuart leave the booth, but he refuses. The prostitutes immediately blame Stuart, accusing him of having a gun, as the police and news crews converge on the location. The caller offers to "make him stop" and in Stuart's confusion, he inadvertently asks for this the caller shoots Leon dead.
Leon, a pimp, breaks the glass side of the booth, grabs Stuart and pummels him while the prostitutes cheer. The booth is approached by three prostitutes demanding to use the phone, but Stuart refuses to leave, without revealing his dilemma. The caller then contacts Pam and connects her to Stuart, who admits that he is married. To demonstrate the threat, the caller fires a suppressed sniper rifle with pinpoint accuracy. Stuart must confess his feelings to both Kelly and Pam to avoid the same fate. The caller tells Stuart that he has tested two previous individuals who have done wrong deeds in a similar manner, giving each a chance to reveal the truth to those they wronged, but in both cases they refused and were killed. Stuart answers a man on the other end, who knows his name, warns him not to leave the booth, threatening to tell Kelly about Pam. As soon as Stuart completes his call, the phone rings.
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During the call, he is interrupted by a pizza delivery man who attempts to deliver a free pizza to him, but Stuart aggressively turns him away. While in Times Square, Stuart uses a public phone booth to contact Pam, allowing him to avoid detection by Kelly. Stuart Shepard is an arrogant and dishonest New York City publicist who has been having an affair with Pamela McFadden behind the back of his wife Kelly.
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