- Hellphone
Infobox Film
name = Hellphone
caption =
director =James Huth
producer =Patrick Malakian
writer =James Huth Sonja Shillito (screenplay)
starring =Jean-Baptiste Maunier Jennifer Decker Benjamin Jungers Vladimir Consigny Édouard Collin Baptiste Caillaud Anaïs Demoustier
music =The Elderberries (songs)
cinematography =Bruno Coulais
editing =Antoine Vareille
distributor =Studio Canal
released =March 28 ,2007 (France)
runtime = 98 min.
country = flagicon|FranceFrance
language = French
allociné_id = 18741009"Hellphone" is a 2007 French film.
Plot Summary
The film begins with Sid Soupir admiring the girl of his dreams, Angie. His friend, Pierre, encourages him to talk to her. Sid agrees but decides to impress Angie with his skateboarding moves first. At first he succeeds in getting Angie's attention but he crashes into a vegetable cart. Angie's two friends, Margot and Clemence laugh while Angie pulls Sid to his feet. Sid offers to make plans with Angie as Angie's sort-of boyfriend, Virgile, and his friends watch from a distance. Angie agrees and offers to get Sid's cellphone number but Sid replies he does not have a cellphone at all. Pierre butts in, lying that Sid had to cancel his cellphone plan as a crazy Russian ex-girlfriend was stalking him. Unimpressed, Angie's friends lead her away.
Back home, Sid finds his mother is baby-sitting the little boy from downstairs, Julien, who appears to have a fascination with horror films. He attempts to scare Sid by pretending to be dead in the kitchen, complete with fake blood and scary music. When Sid enters the kitchen, he is does not seem surprised and walks over Julien's body and gets himself a drink. Sid's mother enters and informs Julien his mother is waiting for him. When Julien leaves, Sid asks his mother if he can have if birthday money in advance. She is only able to spare 30 francs and Sid resolves to ask money from his boss at the fast food restaurant he works at.
At his job, Sid asks his boss for his paycheck in advance. The boss refuses and Sid asks instead for an advance of fifty, then forty, then thirty, and then twenty francs. The boss instead pulls out a 100 franc note which turns out to be counterfeit. Seeing as 30 francs will be the only money he is able to raise, Sid goes to a dinky shop run by Patrick Vo. After some haggling, Sid gets a cellphone,a sleek red phone with two protruding horns at the top. The phone comes to life in his hands which astonishes the shopkeeper who has been trying to turn it on. He tries to take the phone back so he can sell it for more but Sid runs away.
Cast
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Jean-Baptiste Maunier as Sid
*Jennifer Decker as Angie
*Benjamin Jungers as Pierre
*Vladimir Consigny as Virgile
*Édouard Collin as Franklin
*Baptiste Caillaud as David
*Anaïs Demoustier as Clémence
*Judith Chemla as Margot
*Quentin Grosset as Félix
*Géraldine Martineau as Charlotte
*Gilles Gaston-Dreyfus as M. Tamalet
*Christian Hecq as Fritz
*Clotilde Mollet as Mme. Soupir
*Bruno Salomone as Hervé Temmam
*Gilles Privat as M. Fouque
*Silvie Laguna as Mme. Ronssin
*Cyril Gueï as M. Mazeau
*Nicolas Briançon as Commandant Crochet
*Cordula Reyer as Mme. D'Harcourt
*Sandrine Dumas as Mme. Jolimont
*Martin Pautard as JulienExternal references
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* [http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=111102.html | AlloCine]
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