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I'm still hoping Katie shows at the Premiere of Phone Booth tonight at the Toronto Film Festival :) Thanks to Yahoo News for this: Director Schumacher Trains Sights on Blame Culture TORONTO (Reuters) - Director Joel Schumacher's "Phone Booth," about a man called to account for his sins by a psychopath, takes a critical look at the culture of blame in the United States, the filmmaker said on Tuesday. The film, which will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday night, is set entirely inside and around a New York City phone booth where Irish actor Colin Farrell is trapped by a caller who threatens to kill him if he hangs up. "I know in the United States we've fallen into the civilization of 'victimology' where people are not responsible for what they've done," Schumacher told reporters. "It's their mother, their father, the government -- the devil made me do it, the dog ate my homework, the nanny shook me. Nobody's responsible for anything that they've done." Farrell plays a low-life celebrity publicist bent on seducing a client -- whom he calls every day from a phone booth because his wife checks his cellphone records -- but is then forced to confront his actions by the psychopath at the other end of the line. "I'm not going to the premiere tonight just in case something happens," Farrell joked, referring to the teeming mass of publicists in town for the film festival. "But I've met worse people, serving me a...burger in Burger King, driving a bus, working in a bank. There are bastards in every job in the world so it's just about a human being, more than a publicist." A violent act near the phone booth draws a bevy of police sharpshooters to the scene -- all of them convinced Farrell is the man with the gun -- and a negotiator tries to persuade Farrell to hang up the phone and leave the booth. Kiefer Sutherland is the voice of the serial killer with a sniper rifle who has taken it upon himself to act as Farrell's conscience, as well as his judge and his jury. "So many people in our society are held accountable for the way they life their lives and I think a very few people seemingly are not," Sutherland said. "My character is someone who's just fed up with it and he's now decided to follow people and make them accountable for what they've done. "Make them accountable for the lies they've told, make them accountable for the way they've treated other people (and) the choices that they've made." The film also stars Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes, and Radha Mitchell. LOL..thought this was kind funny/cute :) It's from an interview with Major League Baseball Player Brian Schneider: MLB.com: Last year you had mentioned your favorite actress was Katie Holmes from Dawson's Creek. A few weeks ago you were touting the merits of Halle Berry. What happened there? Schneider: Katie's still up there. Halle's been looking good in some of the movies she's been in, but I still like Katie. There's some other ones out there, too, but Katie still tops my list. Her and Meg Ryan Full article here: |
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