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 Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Call is a 2013 American thriller film from WWE Studios, directed by Brad Anderson and starring Halle Berry and Abigail Breslin.9-1-1 operator Jordan Turner (Berry) takes a call from Leah, a terrified teenage girl in a house with an intruder. Despite her best efforts to save her, the girl is kidnapped and later found dead, and Jordan is unable to continue in the job.Six months later, Jordan is now an instructor to new recruits; when a neophyte operator receives a distress call from Casey (Breslin), another teenage girl who's been abducted while leaving a mall, Jordan replaces the flustered newbie. It soon becomes a race against the clock to track down and save Casey, especially when Jordan realizes that the abductor (Michael Eklund) is the same man who killed the first girl...The biggest hit to date from WWE Studios. And although there is a wrestler in the cast (David Otunga), he plays a supporting role as the partner of Jordan's cop boyfriend (Morris Chestnut).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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 Apathetic Citizens: Averted. Everyone who notices something amiss tries to do something to save Casey, even though it gets one of them killed and another seriously injured for their trouble.
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 Batman Gambit: In order to save Leah, Jordan orders her to drop her flip-flops down her room's window and hide under the bed, thus making it look like she escaped the house off the window and discarded them to run faster barefoot. It actually works and gets the killer to leave... until Jordan unfortunately calls Leah again, attracting him with the noise.
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 Badass Bystander: The soccer mom who, upon recognizing Casey waving out of the hole in the trunk, calls 911 and spends a while following and describing the car for them before losing them at a turn. Juan the gas station attendant, who upon realizing that Michael is a kidnapper, briefly attempts to stop him while armed with just a box cutter.
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