Cellular is a 2004 action thriller film, directed by David R. Ellis and starring Kim Basinger and Chris Evans. The screenplay was written by Chris Morgan, Larry Cohen, and J. Mackye Gruber, the latter having also scripted Phone Booth, another film that evolves from a phone call.
Mysterious assailants kidnap high school biology teacher Jessica Martin and confine her in the attic of their safe house. Ethan, the gang leader, smashes the attic's tele...
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Cellular is a 2004 action thriller film, directed by David R. Ellis and starring Kim Basinger and Chris Evans. The screenplay was written by Chris Morgan, Larry Cohen, and J. Mackye Gruber, the latter having also scripted Phone Booth, another film that evolves from a phone call.
Mysterious assailants kidnap high school biology teacher Jessica Martin and confine her in the attic of their safe house. Ethan, the gang leader, smashes the attic's telephone to prevent her from contacting anyone. She has no idea who the kidnappers are or what they want. She pieces together the broken phone and randomly makes a connection. She reaches the cell phone of Ryan who has just been dumped by his girlfriend, Chloe, for being too irresponsible. He believes the call is a joke, but Jessica persuades him to go to the police. At the police station, Officer Mooney tells him to go to the detectives on the fourth floor. He begins to lose the signal in the stairwell, so he turns back to avoid losing the...
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