Hellphone (2007)
Directed by James Huth

Comedy / Fantasy

Film Synopsis

Sid is a high school kid who has fallen for an American student, Angie.  He is determined to lure the attractive New Yorker away from Virgile, the school Don Juan, but to do this he needs a mobile phone.  Unable to afford the model he really wants, Sid ends up buying a cheap phone at a strange market.  To his surprise, the phone appears to have a life of its own.  It rings people up by itself and automatically solves your problems.  But the phone also has a darker side, as Sid and his friends soon discover...
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Film Credits

  • Director: James Huth
  • Script: Sonja Shillito, Jean-Baptiste Andrea (story), James Huth (story)
  • Cinematographer: Stéphane Le Parc
  • Music: Bruno Coulais
  • Cast: Jean-Baptiste Maunier (Sid), Jennifer Decker (Angie), Benjamin Jungers (Pierre), Vladimir Consigny (Virgile), Edouard Collin (Franklin), Baptiste Caillaud (David), Anaïs Demoustier (Clémence), Judith Chemla (Margot), Quentin Grosset (Félix), Géraldine Martineau (Charlotte), Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus (M. Tamalet), Christian Hecq (Fritz), Clotilde Mollet (Mme Soupir), Bruno Salomone (Hervé Temmam), Gilles Privat (M. Fouque), Silvie Laguna (Mme Ronssin), Cyril Guei (M. Mazeau), Nicolas Briançon (Commandant Crochet), Cordula Reyer (Mme D'Harcourt), Sandrine Dumas (Mme Jolimont)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Support: Color
  • Runtime: 98 min

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