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Phone Booth

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105 feature instances
30 referencing feature instances

Phone Booth	type	TVTItem
Phone Booth	label	Phone Booth
Phone Booth	page	PhoneBooth
Phone Booth	comment	Phone Booth is a 2002 suspense film directed by Joel Schumacher about a publicist, Stu Shepard (Colin Farrell), who finds himself held hostage in a phone booth in full view of the New York City public by a sniper (voiced by Kiefer Sutherland) who has uncovered him plotting an affair with Pamela McFadden (Katie Holmes), and wants him to change his ways. To prove his seriousness, the voice on the other end snipes a bystander who's hassling Stu to get out of the booth.As Stu plays a very dangerous hair-trigger game with the voice, the police show up and are perplexed by the panicked man who refuses to exit the phone booth. Thus begins a three way battle of wits as Police Captain Ed Ramey (Forest Whitaker) tries to decipher Stu's situation.One of the selling points of the movie during previews was that it is set in Real Time, often using Split Screen techniques to show things going on at the same time. This came on the heels of 24's initial success on TV (coincidentally, both works feature Kiefer Sutherland in a major role and were produced by 20th Century Fox).
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Phone Booth / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Phone Booth / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: They went out of their way NOT to acknowledge that Kiefer Sutherland is the Caller, but when the movie came out to video and DVD, they slapped the actor's face and name on the cover front and center. This was probably due to his role on 24 both times. Though Sutherland has such a distinctive voice, it seems like a moot point.
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Phone Booth / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
Phone Booth / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: Although the project had been in Development Hell long before that, the final film (which started production around 2000) heavily references the 1999 shooting of Amadou Diallo in New York City, with the Caller bringing up the exact number of bullets being fired on Diallo while accussing the NYPD of being trigger-happy, and Stu saving an African immigrant from being gunned down by the Caller.
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Phone Booth / int_16364a29	type	Evil Sounds Deep
Phone Booth / int_16364a29	comment	Evil Sounds Deep: The Caller has Kiefer Sutherland's famously deep, menacing voice and puts it to very good use.
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Phone Booth / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Phone Booth / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Stu gets most of his information from the Caller, who is proven again and again to be a liar.
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Phone Booth / int_1888979e	type	Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist
Phone Booth / int_1888979e	comment	Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Zigzagged with The Caller. He sees himself as bringing justice to those who deserve it but it's clear he also enjoys killing and the psychological torment he inflicts on his targets, and targets Stu is more out of a personal dislike than because he's a truly evil person. He gives his victims a chance to redeem themselves and seems to genuinely want them to take it but is quite content to murder them if they don't and initially refuses to let Stu go even after he breaks down and admits to everything the Caller wanted him to. When Stu accuses him of never intending to let him go regardless of what he did, he never outright denies it. He is also willing to harm and frame innocent people for his murders, such as the pizza delivery guy, in pursuit of his goals, saying that everyone has caused harm to others so that no one is truly an innocent bystander. Best summed up his final appearance where he seems sincerely happy that Stu has improved and wishes him well but also menacingly reminds him that he'll be back if he falls back into his old habits and makes it clear he won't be as merciful the next time.
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Phone Booth / int_19a5d773	type	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!
Phone Booth / int_19a5d773	comment	They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: The Caller looks like a perfectly ordinary person who is able to easily blend into a crowd and disappear.
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Phone Booth / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Phone Booth / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Ben Foster as "Big Q", a No Celebrities Were Harmed spoof of Eminem.
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Phone Booth / int_1c4e3202	type	The Spook
Phone Booth / int_1c4e3202	comment	The Spook: Nothing is known about the Caller. What little personal information he tells Stu, such as being a struggling actor and later a Vietnam veteran and then having a violently abusive childhood, is quickly admitted to be lies made up for his own amusement.
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Phone Booth / int_1ed05659	type	No Hero to His Valet
Phone Booth / int_1ed05659	comment	No Hero to His Valet: Inverted; Stu is careless enough to be considered as a massive jerk to his assistant Adam, but Adam still looks up to him. By the end Stu admits that Adam deserves much better and says that he should find someone better to admire.
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Phone Booth / int_211eedd	type	All Crimes Are Equal
Phone Booth / int_211eedd	comment	All Crimes Are Equal: The Caller lumps Stu's potential planned adultery in with the child pornography and corrupt business deals of former victims. The Caller uses this as one of his methods to torment and humiliate Stu.
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Phone Booth / int_2171fd57	type	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It
Phone Booth / int_2171fd57	comment	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It: Stu uses this as his excuse as to why he's cheating on his wife.
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Phone Booth / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Phone Booth / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The Caller calls Kelly at one point. As he isn't using the hard-to-trace phone (he is currently on it with Stu) the police have an easier time tracking the line to his location. Stu tells the negotiator he wants a lawyer. Later, the negotiator uses the term "lawyer" to refer to the sniper and tips Stu off they are onto the man and closing in.
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Phone Booth / int_22d639e6	type	If It Bleeds, It Leads
Phone Booth / int_22d639e6	comment	If It Bleeds, It Leads: Referenced by The Caller twice. He points out a tourist with a video camera who would love to film a bloody police shootout and sell it to a TV program. He later mentions the arrival of reporters for Channels 2 and 5, to the point that Stu will hit the entire alphabet worth of news-casting channels.
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Phone Booth / int_281de59f	type	Extremely Short Timespan
Phone Booth / int_281de59f	comment	Extremely Short Timespan: The film unfolds more or less in Real Time (with a couple of minor jumps).
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Phone Booth / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Phone Booth / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Stu, a publicist, carries himself like a big shot but he's nowhere near as powerful or influential as he'd like to claim and is forced to admit as much.
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Phone Booth / int_2af6bbeb	type	Break the Haughty
Phone Booth / int_2af6bbeb	comment	Break the Haughty: A main theme of the film is that Stu, an incredibly arrogant man, is forced to confront just how little power he actually has and how pathetic he really is when his veneer of control is stripped from him.
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Phone Booth / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Phone Booth / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: The Caller's not exactly a sane man.
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Phone Booth / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Phone Booth / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Mocked by The Caller when he admonishes Stu for profanity. The Caller, despite being ruthless with possibly shooting people for being in the wrong place (why he does so might be hinted as him being tired of peoples' general lies, such as when, at one point, he points out possible signs of cheating in Stu's wife, whose behavior was benign as far as viewers could see), did retaliate against a couple of serious criminals who apparently had chances to come clean.
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Phone Booth / int_32785419	type	Redemption Rejection
Phone Booth / int_32785419	comment	Redemption Rejection: Invoked by The Caller. He gives each of his targets a chance, if not several, to repent and admit to their crimes. If they don't, he kills them.
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Phone Booth / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Phone Booth / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: The Caller gets Stu to spotlight and possibly insult Captain Ed Ramey on his failed marriage just because he found him annoying and doesnâ€™t sympathize with him at all. Stu is also rude and insulting to the pizza delivery guy, mocking him for being overweight which the man was clearly upset by.
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Phone Booth / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
Phone Booth / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: There's a lot of swearing in this film.
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Phone Booth / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Phone Booth / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Collin Farrell's natural Irish accent comes through during Stu's confession.
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Phone Booth / int_3eb8ba12	type	Description Porn
Phone Booth / int_3eb8ba12	comment	Description Porn: The Caller's description of his rifle.
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Phone Booth / int_3f6d2c98	type	Cold Sniper
Phone Booth / int_3f6d2c98	comment	Cold Sniper: The Caller is clinically cold whilst holding Stu hostage via a sniper rifle.
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Phone Booth / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
Phone Booth / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: Possibly. The Caller sends a pizza to the phone booth and it's quite likely he used how Stu would treat the delivery guy as a test. Predictably, Stu fails.
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Phone Booth / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Phone Booth / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Stu tries to claim that Kelly is a crazy failed actress/stalker and not his wife to get her away from the crime scene and out of The Callerâ€™s sight. No one but the Caller believes him.
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Phone Booth / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Phone Booth / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Stu's fine, and has learned some valuable lessons, but the Caller pins the whole thing on the pizza guy and gets away.
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Phone Booth / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Phone Booth / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Stu gradually reveals himself as this by the end, actively begging the Caller to kill him instead of his wife (who he admits he truly does love and is ashamed of planning to cheat on) or Pam (who he points out is a completely innocent bystander who didn't even know he was married when he flirted with her).
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Phone Booth / int_4b17763f	type	Technology Marches On
Phone Booth / int_4b17763f	comment	Technology Marches On: Acknowledged In-Universe in regards to the booth. During the forty years that the script went through Development Hell, phone booths became obsolete. The film says it's "one of the few remaining phone booths [as opposed to kiosks] left in the city", and the reason Stu uses it is because he's a married man cheating on his wife using it to call his mistress, and his wife checks his cellphone records. Other minor examples - the cellphones are period-appropriate, and the opening narration observes that an estimated 3 million New Yorkers are cellphone users (one wonders how many there are by the time you're reading this).
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Phone Booth / int_4d30004d	type	Wedding Ring Removal
Phone Booth / int_4d30004d	comment	Wedding Ring Removal: Stu takes off his wedding ring just before calling Pam, who he intends to have an affair with; he eventually admits its because he doesn't want to be reminded of how much he's failing Kelly. He puts it back on near the end of the film, symbolizing his renewed commitment to her.
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Phone Booth / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Phone Booth / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Without even a word spoken. Stu doesn't believe that the Caller has a sniper rifle pointed at him and tells him to go to hell. Cue Dramatic Gun Cock.
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Phone Booth / int_5009999d	type	Painting the Medium
Phone Booth / int_5009999d	comment	Painting the Medium: Twice - when the Caller is recounting his previous victims the flashbacks are put through a jerky, high-contrast red filter, while the "I watch" sequence is done in blurred, washed-out visuals reminiscent of the rotoscoping from Waking Life.
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Phone Booth / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Phone Booth / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The penalty for planning to cheat on your wife (and being between irresponsible and an outright prick) is death. Stu even lampshades this near the end of the film.
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Phone Booth / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Phone Booth / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: The Caller really prepared for Stu to be in that phone booth for as long as it takes and made sure he could get away with a scapegoat in place.
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Phone Booth / int_510e5a9	type	Sassy Black Woman
Phone Booth / int_510e5a9	comment	Sassy Black Woman: Felicia.
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Phone Booth / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Phone Booth / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: The communication relay satellite sequence, reversed before the credits roll. Also the Caller's waxing philosophical about phone use at the beginning is echoed at the end.
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Phone Booth / int_5963b221	type	Eviler than Thou
Phone Booth / int_5963b221	comment	Eviler than Thou: While Stu is not exactly a good man, who planned for months to cheat on his wife and who lies to all his clients and his assistant, the Caller is a sadistic, sick Knight Templar who takes people hostage and is willing to kill relatively innocent bystanders if he feels the need.
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Phone Booth / int_5b1a2f4e	type	Ain't Too Proud to Beg
Phone Booth / int_5b1a2f4e	comment	Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Stu can transition from cocksure confidence to clear nervousness and sympathetic weeping in a matter of seconds.
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Phone Booth / int_5d6db368	type	Four Eyes, Zero Soul
Phone Booth / int_5d6db368	comment	Four Eyes, Zero Soul: The Caller, once his face is revealed.
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Phone Booth / int_6220c00d	type	Pædo Hunt
Phone Booth / int_6220c00d	comment	PÃ¦do Hunt: Invoked. Before Stu, one of the Caller's targets was a child pornographer.
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Phone Booth / int_68068108	type	Evil Laugh
Phone Booth / int_68068108	comment	Evil Laugh: Downplayed, as The Caller switches between this and Giggling Villain over the course of the film.
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Phone Booth / int_6b00879d	type	Disconnected by Death
Phone Booth / int_6b00879d	comment	Disconnected by Death: Used, but twisted as the man in the booth was talking to the potential killer. Taken to the extreme involving the police trying to save someone in such a situation.
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Phone Booth / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Phone Booth / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But a ringing phone has to be answered, doesn't it?"
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Phone Booth / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Phone Booth / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: After a while, the Caller grows tired of Stu and urges him to finish himself off, though Stu does not do so. Later subverted with the pizza guy, who the police think is the sniper, having killed himself to avoid being arrested. He was actually an innocent victim of the real sniper.
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Phone Booth / int_6dc99d2a	type	Deadly Delivery
Phone Booth / int_6dc99d2a	comment	Deadly Delivery: Inverted; the villain lures a pizza delivery man to his hiding place and kills him to fake his own suicide.
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Phone Booth / int_6edc54d5	type	Here We Go Again!
Phone Booth / int_6edc54d5	comment	Here We Go Again!: Another phone booth starts to ring.
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Phone Booth / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Phone Booth / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: The Caller killed other men before catching up with Stu and the ending makes clear he's going to keep doing it.
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Phone Booth / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Phone Booth / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: The cops suspect Stu of attempting this, and actively seek to defy it. Of course they're wrong since Stu doesn't want to commit suicide, he's being held hostage. The Caller also tries to trick Stu into inadvertently committing this more than once.
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Phone Booth / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
Phone Booth / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: The Caller might be a sociopathic and sadist Serial Killer but he claims to be willing to let his targets live if they confess their misdeeds. Which he does with Stu at the end after he finally admits all his wrong doings and decides to be a better man than he was.
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Phone Booth / int_7582930a	type	Hollywood Science
Phone Booth / int_7582930a	comment	Hollywood Science: Whilst the hollow round of the gun would have made it difficult to establish if a rifle or a handgun was used, the gunshot entrance into Leon would have proved that there was no way Stu could have shot him. Then again, the way Leon fell as he walked away would make it initially difficult to determine how he was shot — at first glance it appears Stu shot him In the Back.
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Phone Booth / int_77922c8c	type	Batter Up!
Phone Booth / int_77922c8c	comment	Batter Up!: Leon uses one to break the glass on the phone booth to get to Stu.
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Phone Booth / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Phone Booth / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: Played with and subverted. The Caller pretends to be suffering from PTSD from his experiences as a rifleman in The Vietnam War. When Stu tries to use this to calm him down, he just laughs and admits he made the whole thing up, and points out how old he'd have to be if he were a Vietnam War veteran (though it might be hard to tell from only a voice as to being "50" at least in the film's release year).
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Phone Booth / int_7a6e47f6	type	Instant Emergency Response
Phone Booth / int_7a6e47f6	comment	Instant Emergency Response: Subverted and lampshaded. Stu points out that if the sniper fires his gun, everyone will panic. The sniper does; no one even notices.
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Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_7a6e47f6
Phone Booth / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Phone Booth / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: The Caller finds some of Stu's insulting comments and general lashing out funny and openly laughs at them, particularly to Leon's girls.
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Phone Booth / int_8042e814	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_8042e814
Phone Booth / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Phone Booth / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: The situation is portrayed this way by The Caller. Stu is indeed a bad person, a jerk and a dishonest man planning to cheat on his wife behind her back with a woman he lied to about not being married. However, the Caller is miles worse in terms of being a danger to others, since he targets not only Asshole Victims he thinks deserve to die, but also threatens to murder Stu's wife just to shake Stu up and kills an apparently innocent pizza guy - even if he said he "felt bad" about it. Such things could stem from him genuinely believing that all people "do harm", but it's still going too far. And as much of a jerk as Stu is, getting shot to death in the middle of the street for cheating on his wife is a very disproportionate punishment. Note that we the audience know nothing about Stu except his crass behavior at the film's opening, what The Caller tells us about him and how he behaves in a situation that very few people would be able to handle in a way that makes them look pleasant.
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Phone Booth / int_8767b1f3	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_8767b1f3
Phone Booth / int_87ab7f69	type	Sharp-Dressed Man
Phone Booth / int_87ab7f69	comment	Sharp-Dressed Man: Stu loves his designer clothing and the Caller even compliments him on his suit. Though he eventually forces Stu to admit it's just his own way of feeling like a big shot.
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Phone Booth / int_87ab7f69	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_87ab7f69
Phone Booth / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Phone Booth / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: The Caller's previous victims and Stu himself (at least in the Caller's opinion, though he had other ways to say it). The pimp wasn't exactly a saint either as he attacked Stu with a baseball bat with little provocation, and it might be probable he would've acted exactly the same to Stu even if Stu had been polite to him.
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Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_8ed5c6e4
Phone Booth / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
Phone Booth / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: The Caller considers his actions this. Stu points out that killing him for cheating on his wife and generally being a jerk is actually wildly disproportionate, which the Caller ignores.
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Phone Booth / int_90d44f44	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_90d44f44
Phone Booth / int_94e7d8f	type	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!
Phone Booth / int_94e7d8f	comment	Shoot Him, He Has a Wallet!: Repeatedly discussed and played with. The Caller tells Stu not to do anything that could be interpreted as a hostile action in front of the police, noting that "you can be shot forty-one times just for pulling out your wallet" (referencing the Amadou Diallo shooting). Stu almost does this accidentally when he tries to take his cellphone and cigarettes out of his pocket to prove that he doesn't have a gun. Eventually, the Caller tries to invoke this trope to get Stu to commit inadvertent Suicide by Cop - another potential option.
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Phone Booth / int_9521acf7	type	The Scourge of God
Phone Booth / int_9521acf7	comment	The Scourge of God: The Caller's previous two victims were a child pornographer and a businessman who made off with a collapsed company's profits, leaving his employees and investors to rot. Stu is by no means a moral person, but he is nowhere near as bad as the previous two victims. The Caller also has no problem shooting people who are at worst mildly unpleasant or threatening totally innocent people.
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Phone Booth / int_9521acf7	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_9521acf7
Phone Booth / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Phone Booth / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: The caller fakes one for a few minutes when Stu won't speak to him, making up a story about having lived through horrible childhood trauma. He has another one near the end that might not have been an act. However, he had to have been referring to the pizza guy when he has to "take someone down with [him]", and not Kelly like he was threatening to Stu. He keeps everyone in the dark about holding the pizza guy hostage in secret the entire time to distract the police from him.
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Phone Booth / int_957e5fc2	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_957e5fc2
Phone Booth / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Phone Booth / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: The Caller's demeanor is pleasant, but is clearly malevolent and serious, with deity-level feelings of grandiosity. Though he takes it to an extreme, he states he is sick of hearing peoples' lies...
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Phone Booth / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
Phone Booth / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: The Caller refuses to accept any responsibility for the people he kills, saying that him shooting Leon was all Stu's fault because he said "yes" when the Caller asked if he wanted to get rid of him (despite Stu pointing out that he didn't ask for the Caller to kill him and that Leon was actively trying to break into the phone booth with a baseball bat in order to drag Stu out, which the Caller would have killed Stu for).
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Phone Booth / int_9b7a0921	type	Split Screen
Phone Booth / int_9b7a0921	comment	Split Screen: Used regularly throughout.
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Phone Booth / int_9b7a0921	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_9b7a0921
Phone Booth / int_a08199ec	type	The Dog Was the Mastermind
Phone Booth / int_a08199ec	comment	The Dog Was the Mastermind: The Caller turns out to be the pizza delivery guy, a minor character from the beginning of the movie. Subverted: turns out that the pizza guy was set up as the culprit by the real Caller.
Phone Booth / int_a08199ec	featureApplicability	-0.3
Phone Booth / int_a08199ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_a08199ec
Phone Booth / int_a2940ed5	type	"Begone" Bribe
Phone Booth / int_a2940ed5	comment	"Begone" Bribe: Stu dismisses others by offering them money or valuable items on more than one occasion. The Caller reminds him of this later and comments on how it shows Stu's disrespect towards other people though he also notes it shows a softer side as he tries to get others out of the line of fire of the Caller.
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Phone Booth / int_a2940ed5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Phone Booth / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
Phone Booth / int_a39d6056	comment	Nice to the Waiter: Played straight - Stu is charming to anyone who'll do him a favour or anyone he's trying to impress, but a jerk to the pizza guy and, though less so, his own assistant.
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Phone Booth / int_a39d6056	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_a39d6056
Phone Booth / int_a426ae28	type	Multiple-Choice Past
Phone Booth / int_a426ae28	comment	Multiple-Choice Past: The Caller repeatedly makes up different stories about his past and current life. None of'em are true as he himself admits.
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Phone Booth / int_a426ae28	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_a426ae28
Phone Booth / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Phone Booth / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Stu survives the ordeal and reconnects with his wife, but the Caller himself escapes in the end. He inconspicuously visits a medicated Stu just before leaving, threatening to see him again if he doesn't remain a newly upstanding man, and even tells him he doesn't have to thank him for everything he did for Stu. He takes his disassembled sniper rifle with him, hinting he'll do all of it again somewhere else. Sure enough, another phone booth starts to ring...
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Phone Booth / int_a70223	featureConfidence	1.0
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Phone Booth / int_a7ba94de	type	Inferiority Superiority Complex
Phone Booth / int_a7ba94de	comment	Inferiority Superiority Complex: Stu is eventually forced to admit that his cocky behavior is his way of covering his own deep insecurities.
Phone Booth / int_a7ba94de	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_a7ba94de	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_a7ba94de
Phone Booth / int_a8593e70	type	Real Time
Phone Booth / int_a8593e70	comment	Real Time: It cheats a few times but tries to hold to the idea.
Phone Booth / int_a8593e70	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_a8593e70	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_a8593e70
Phone Booth / int_a8660c25	type	Soft-Spoken Sadist
Phone Booth / int_a8660c25	comment	Soft-Spoken Sadist: The Caller rarely raises his voice.
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Phone Booth / int_a8660c25	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_a8660c25
Phone Booth / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
Phone Booth / int_adfd3165	comment	The Caller, over the course of the film he threatens to kill several innocent-enough people with only the implication that he cannot stand peoples' lies and such, killed Leon and the pizza delivery guy, made Stu question if not insult Captain Ed Ramey on his failed marriage either For the Evulz or because It Amused Me, judges the so-called experts for not figuring things out faster at one point, among other things.
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Phone Booth / int_adfd3165	featureConfidence	1.0
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Phone Booth / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Phone Booth / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: The Caller, albeit of a much more crueler and more sinister variety than usual. It fits nicely with his sadism and open enjoyment of Stu's suffering. Stu himself acts this way with sarcasm early on and even, at times while clearly being threatened.
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Phone Booth / int_ae3d6438	featureConfidence	1.0
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Phone Booth / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
Phone Booth / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: As Stu is being beaten by Leon, The Caller asks if he wants to get rid of Leon. When he shoots Leon, he says Stu could have said no. Stu points out that he never asked for him to kill Leon; the Caller chose to loosely interpret his words that way.
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Phone Booth / int_b06bbf4b	featureConfidence	1.0
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Phone Booth / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Phone Booth / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: The police cannot listen in on a call between a person and one whom they have legal confidentiality with, like a lawyer or doctor. They can, however, trace the line so long as they don't listen in.
Phone Booth / int_b1dde8fd	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_b1dde8fd	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_b1dde8fd
Phone Booth / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Phone Booth / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: It's fairly reasonable for those hookers to assume that Stu shot their pimp, but it's far less reasonable for them to stand around screaming at someone who they're convinced has a gun and just used it to murder someone right in front of them.
Phone Booth / int_b58b4e3c	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_b58b4e3c	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_b58b4e3c
Phone Booth / int_ba5bd7	type	Ignored Expert
Phone Booth / int_ba5bd7	comment	Ignored Expert: Raymond the professional negotiator doesnâ€™t get a chance to be of any use. It is implied that he doesnâ€™t have a good record if Ramey and Coleâ€™s reaction to arrival is any indication and serves as The Load throughout the film.
Phone Booth / int_ba5bd7	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_ba5bd7	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_ba5bd7
Phone Booth / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Phone Booth / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: The Caller. His targets are usually unrepentant criminals like a child pornographer and a businessman who made off with a collapsed company's profits, leaving his employees and investors to rot. His target in the film, however, isn't any type of criminal, but simply enough of a Jerkass Stu Shepard, who is having an affair and pretending to be a big shot; not exactly what you would call pure evil. Also, the sniper's methods to get criminals, real or imaginary, to confess, including targeting and threatening their loved ones, are quite questionable, to say the least. In the end, Stu confesses to his deeds, and the sniper decides to spare his life and those of his loved ones...though it's hinted that the sniper is going to check up on Stu once in a while to make sure that Stu keeps his promise of not being a douche.
Phone Booth / int_bbfaa837	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_bbfaa837	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_bbfaa837
Phone Booth / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
Phone Booth / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: When Stu is confessing he wanted to "sleep with a woman", The Caller intervenes.
Phone Booth / int_bc00493f	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_bc00493f	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_bc00493f
Phone Booth / int_c2afffe	type	Take Me Instead
Phone Booth / int_c2afffe	comment	Take Me Instead: Said word-for-word by Stu when The Caller threatens Stu's wife.
Phone Booth / int_c2afffe	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_c2afffe	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_c2afffe
Phone Booth / int_c2d6bd47	type	Redemption Earns Life
Phone Booth / int_c2d6bd47	comment	Redemption Earns Life: Stu is forced to confront his many failings as a person and as a husband and genuinely wants to be better, even planning to sacrifice himself so that no one else will be shot by the Caller. Instead, the police shoot him with a rubber bullet, fooling the Caller long enough for them to storm his location and get Stu safely into an ambulance.
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Phone Booth / int_c2d6bd47	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_c2d6bd47
Phone Booth / int_c3245c20	type	I Lied
Phone Booth / int_c3245c20	comment	I Lied: When Stu finally admits everything to his wife, in front of dozens of people, and the Caller continues to hold him hostage, Stu despairingly asks why the Caller won't let him go like he said he would. The Caller just cheerfully says he changed his mind.
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Phone Booth / int_c3245c20	featureConfidence	1.0
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Phone Booth / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Phone Booth / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Played with and subverted. Whatever the Caller's motives for his actions, it had nothing to do with his childhood upbringing, which he says was quite happy.
Phone Booth / int_c868a42a	featureApplicability	-0.3
Phone Booth / int_c868a42a	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_c868a42a
Phone Booth / int_c86b7046	type	It's Not Porn, It's Art
Phone Booth / int_c86b7046	comment	It's Not Porn, It's Art: The Caller tells Stu about one his previous victims, a child pornographer who claimed he was just an artist.
Phone Booth / int_c86b7046	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_c86b7046	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_c86b7046
Phone Booth / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Phone Booth / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Stu never learns what the Caller's actual name is and neither does the audience.
Phone Booth / int_ca87e3ec	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_ca87e3ec	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_ca87e3ec
Phone Booth / int_cbe687ab	type	Corrupt Corporate Executive
Phone Booth / int_cbe687ab	comment	Corrupt Corporate Executive: One of the Caller's previous victims was a Wall Street trader who let many people go bankrupt for his own benefit.
Phone Booth / int_cbe687ab	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_cbe687ab	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_cbe687ab
Phone Booth / int_d99a228f	type	Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Phone Booth / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Stu tells The Caller that if he fires off his weapon, it call cause mass panic and police to arrive. The Caller responds to this by shooting a toy on the street and mocking Stu when no one seems to notice.
Phone Booth / int_d99a228f	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_d99a228f	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_d99a228f
Phone Booth / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Phone Booth / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Leon can be seen during the opening, rubbing a hooker's belly.
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Phone Booth / int_dcbe8a6e	featureConfidence	1.0
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Phone Booth / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
Phone Booth / int_dd082289	comment	A Million Is a Statistic: "Thousands of people die every day, but you put one dead body in the middle of a busy street and it makes people crazy."
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Phone Booth / int_de3c879e	type	Unnaturally Blue Lighting
Phone Booth / int_de3c879e	comment	Unnaturally Blue Lighting: The whole film has a very obvious blue sheen to it. This was probably meant in part to hide the aforementioned California Doubling.
Phone Booth / int_de3c879e	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_de3c879e	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_de3c879e
Phone Booth / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
Phone Booth / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: The Caller didn't foresee Stu claiming the Caller was his psychiatrist, thus making it illegal to listen into anything said between them. This would end up hampering the police even more than the stuff he did to keep him from being tracked. The Caller even wishes he had thought of it.
Phone Booth / int_dfa40c1b	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_dfa40c1b	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_dfa40c1b
Phone Booth / int_e1fa333c	type	Hannibal Lecture
Phone Booth / int_e1fa333c	comment	Hannibal Lecture: Just about everything the Caller says. It's what makes up most of the movie, with the Caller's mannerisms being generally easy to compare to those of Dr. Lecter himself.
Phone Booth / int_e1fa333c	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_e1fa333c	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_e1fa333c
Phone Booth / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
Phone Booth / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: All the primary action takes place in the same city street, with only a handful of very brief scenes that take place somewhere else.
Phone Booth / int_e2a6ebc1	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_e2a6ebc1	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_e2a6ebc1
Phone Booth / int_e313bcdc	type	Ignore the Fanservice
Phone Booth / int_e313bcdc	comment	Ignore the Fanservice: One of the escorts tries to entice Stu to get out of the phone booth by showing off her assets. Stu, however, is too busy listening to The Caller talk about his previous victims to notice before she storms off.
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Phone Booth / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Phone Booth / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: The skimpily-dressed ladies will have you know they're escorts, not hookers. The Caller also insists that Stu say he wanted to "fuck" his would-be mistress, as opposed to saying he wanted to sleep with her.
Phone Booth / int_e563bf09	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_e563bf09	featureConfidence	1.0
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Phone Booth / int_e90a93b2	type	Creepy Monotone
Phone Booth / int_e90a93b2	comment	Creepy Monotone: The Caller, for the most part.
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Phone Booth / int_e90a93b2	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_e90a93b2
Phone Booth / int_ea7e3be8	type	Dramatic Gun Cock
Phone Booth / int_ea7e3be8	comment	Dramatic Gun Cock: Discussed/exploited/invoked by the Caller. He actually cocks it many times over the movie, and it scares Stu each time.
Phone Booth / int_ea7e3be8	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_ea7e3be8	featureConfidence	1.0
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Phone Booth / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Phone Booth / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Stu is flirting with other women and planning on cheating on his wife, and is a smug jerk pretending to be a bigshot to his employees. The Caller, over the course of the film he threatens to kill several innocent-enough people with only the implication that he cannot stand peoples' lies and such, killed Leon and the pizza delivery guy, made Stu question if not insult Captain Ed Ramey on his failed marriage either For the Evulz or because It Amused Me, judges the so-called experts for not figuring things out faster at one point, among other things. Leon the pimp and the "escorts", who try to outright attack Stu with a baseball bat (possibly with the intent to kill him) just for hogging the phone booth and being somewhat rude.
Phone Booth / int_eb8ec7c8	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_eb8ec7c8	featureConfidence	1.0
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Phone Booth / int_eb8ec7c8
Phone Booth / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Phone Booth / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Stu finally admits his wrongdoings to his wife and all of the passers-by, and is shot shortly after in order to save Kelly and Pam. Then it is revealed that it was a rubber bullet, and he's perfectly fine.
Phone Booth / int_f1492605	featureApplicability	1.0
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Phone Booth / int_f792ffe4	type	Beleaguered Assistant
Phone Booth / int_f792ffe4	comment	Beleaguered Assistant: Stu has one in Adam although he's slightly nicer to him than others and seems to have some genuine affection for him even before he gets in the phone booth. By the end, Stu outright tells him he is too good to be a publicist.
Phone Booth / int_f792ffe4	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_f792ffe4	featureConfidence	1.0
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Phone Booth / int_f9bc2937	type	Laser Sight
Phone Booth / int_f9bc2937	comment	Laser Sight: Like the gun cock, used for psychological reasons more than practical reasons. It also gives the Caller away when the negotiator sees the red dot on Stu's wife and clues him in on the real depth of the situation.
Phone Booth / int_f9bc2937	featureApplicability	1.0
Phone Booth / int_f9bc2937	featureConfidence	1.0
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Phone Booth / int_fed93e1b	type	Dark and Troubled Past
Phone Booth / int_fed93e1b	comment	Dark and Troubled Past: Invoked and subverted by The Caller. He mentions being both a traumatized Vietnam War veteran who was abandoned by his country afterwards and a victim of child abuse. He quickly admits to lying about both.
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Phone Booth / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
Phone Booth / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: The Caller attempts to do this by preemptively ordering a pizza to the booth for Stu to have during the ordeal but Stu rudely turns him away.
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Phonebooth	sameAs	Phone Booth
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Absurdly Short Production Time / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Anonymous Public Phone Call / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Astronomic Zoom / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	"Begone" Bribe / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Cold Sniper / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Creepy Monotone / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Deadly Delivery / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Description Porn / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Disconnected by Death / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Dramatic Gun Cock / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Extremely Short Timespan / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	He Had a Name / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	I Can See You / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Instant Emergency Response / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Laser Sight / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Multiple-Choice Past / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	My Verbin' Noun / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	One-Take Wonder / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Pimp Duds / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Polite Villains, Rude Heroes / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Psychological Thriller / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Real Time / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Spoiler Cover / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Stranger Behind the Mask / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Suicide by Cop / int_5dc16602
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Take Me Instead / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	The Dog Was the Mastermind / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Trick Bullet / int_5bfe75e2
Phone Booth	hasFeature	Wedding Ring Removal / int_5bfe75e2

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