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Title: Cellular
Post by: MacGuffin on June 01, 2004, 01:16:55 AM
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Trailer here (http://progressive.stream.aol.com/newline/gl/newline/trailers/Cellular/Cellular_700_dl.mov).

Release Date: September 17th, 2004 (wide)

Cast: Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham, Jessica Biel, Noah Emmerich, William H. Macy, Valerie Cruz, Eric Etebari, Rick Hoffman, Matt McColms, Dat Phan.

Director: David Ellis (Final Destination 2, Homeward Bound 2: Lost in San Francisco)

Screenwriter: Larry Cohen (The Stuff, Q: The Winged Serpent, It's Alive!; he's also got Phone Booth coming); rewrite by Chris Morgan (debut); polish by J. Mackeye Gruber and Eric Bress (writing team of Final Destination 2 and The Butterfly Effect)

Premise: A young man (Evans) receives a call on his cellular phone from a woman (Basinger) who says she's been kidnapped (by Statham's character), and thinks she's going to be killed soon, along with her husband and son who the kidnappers have gone after next. The catch? She doesn't know where she is... and his cell phone battery might go dead soon. (Macy plays a police officer.)
Title: Cellular
Post by: Alethia on June 01, 2004, 08:19:24 AM
looks like fun. if anything, it has macy in it.
Title: Cellular
Post by: pete on June 01, 2004, 02:09:00 PM
a cellphone is one of the least cinematic props ever.
Title: Cellular
Post by: Alethia on June 01, 2004, 05:48:29 PM
unless he had one a those big ol ones that look like the first versions of indoor portable phones.  y'know, like zack from saved by the bell had.
Title: Cellular
Post by: The Perineum Falcon on June 01, 2004, 09:35:00 PM
NEVER. ANSWER. YOUR. PHONE. AGAIN.
Title: Cellular
Post by: NEON MERCURY on June 02, 2004, 09:13:17 PM
i remember seeing the traioler before TDAT..and thinking that this film loooks incredibly stupid and just another typical thriller that been doen better on an episode of 24...also this is even more proof that the pretty little oscar statuette seems out of place sitting on kim basinger s shelf........
Title: Cellular
Post by: matt35mm on August 27, 2004, 10:33:03 AM
This movie has the best tagline ever, though:

If The Signal Dies, So Does She.

I love that so much.
Title: Cellular
Post by: cine on September 10, 2004, 02:53:32 PM
Ebert boldly called this "one of the year's best thrillers."  :shock:

I still won't see it.
Title: Cellular
Post by: Finn on September 11, 2004, 09:59:43 PM
It was hilarious! I think it was supposed to be a really chessy B-movie and it totally worked as that.
Title: Cellular
Post by: Just Withnail on September 12, 2004, 09:06:14 AM
Chessy? Like Seventh Seal?
Title: Cellular
Post by: Finn on September 12, 2004, 06:06:59 PM
haven't seen that one
Title: Cellular
Post by: Just Withnail on September 13, 2004, 10:12:35 AM
It's really chessy.
Title: Cellular
Post by: cine on September 13, 2004, 11:38:42 AM
Quote from: ...& IChessy? Like Seventh Seal?
Did you just compare this to a Bergman film?
Title: Cellular
Post by: Just Withnail on September 13, 2004, 02:21:02 PM
Did you just take me seriously?  :wink:
Title: Cellular
Post by: cine on September 13, 2004, 02:33:33 PM
Quote from: ...& IDid you just take me seriously?  :wink:
I just took you, baby, and I'm not letting go.
Title: Cellular
Post by: Just Withnail on September 13, 2004, 02:50:09 PM
Hold me.

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