Best movie of this year hands down!

Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Great Film overall

Absolutely brilliant

Some very slight material supposedly held together by an isolated phone booth in the Mojave desert. Various characters explain their problems to an unknown individual named Greta on the other end of the line. There are four episodes all seeming to have something to do with sexual frustration, jealousy, and magnetic tape. Countless conversations enlighten Greta about desperate boyfriends, bitchy girlfriends, best friend pimps, and U.F.O. alien parasites. It's unbelievable that all this nonsense is supposed to make sense, after characters from the different episodes eventually come together. Just another bad DVD for my garage sale. - MERK

I'd like to give this a higher score but you've got to allow for pristine excellence. MPB doesn't have that but it noses around in that area.As you've read in other comments, the phone booth (until 2000) was real, the tales told in the movie are fictional. The very real phone booth inspired someone (you can look it up) to weave tales around a very unique phone booth.The concept is something someone should have made up but took a niche of reality to jump start things. It would have been such a triumph for someone to cobble this together from scratch. But so much of fiction uses the hodgepodge of fact for a launching pad. No foul. It's how things work.In the movie, it's one lady (suspiciously wise, lady) who calls the MPB ... and, occasionally, someone is there to answer it. When that happens, the ability of humans to be confessional with a disembodied voice (versus face to face with people we know)kicks in and the stories that create the film unfold.It's a wonderful format and allows an experimental exploration of cinema on several levels.It's just plain enjoyable and fascinating because it tinkers with something that exists in our world and something that tinkers with what we wish, might, possibly, perhaps, could exist in our world.In reality, once the phone number for the MPB was out; everyone would be calling it, trying to connect with someone at that lone outpost and reduce its "special-ness" and "unique-ness" to lowest levels of mediocrity.That's what we do. Something very special and unique shows up and we leap upon it, shred it, commercialize it, suck it dry of any meaning and slap it on t-shirts and bumper stickers, thump our chests and go looking for the next significant thing we can reduce to nothingness with our rampant and relentless egos.This film takes a pause with a very special something that really existed and wonders what would happen if the honest human element got hold of it.And a collection of stories come together.When it's over, you might find yourself thinking about all the other things that could happen if we had a phone booth in the middle of nowhere that would ring at random times and have a disembodied entity on the other end that could help us find our way through whatever dilemma enveloped our lives at the moment.Wouldn't you love something like that? I would.I don't have the answers. I'd like to knock words with someone who might.Nice foundation for a different kind of film. Fortunately; it's called "Mojave Phone Booth".Worth your time.

but i can't... but i CAN give you a reflection on my experience of this film... it wasn't terrible. and, when deciding what to see, that should never be part of my criteria...there's LOTS of stuff out there. this was fairly amateurish writing bolstered by a few strong performances... and, even though it had a clever idea to springboard from, AND as 'original'(and this is definitely part of why i'm convinced people who helped make this movie are just trying to get 'free hype' on this site, which makes this i sore) as some other commentors said it was, it was, to be kind, not all that clever... for me, though, when it was over, it became an exercise in, 'ok, genius...what would make this movie BETTER...'. i mean, after all, it's EASY to pick something apart...much harder to put it together... i don't want to spoil it for anyone who'd still care to see this... EYE was intrigued, obviously... but it'll be obvious at the end of the movie who i'm speaking about when i say that they should have developed one of the central characters more...i never found out enough about THIS central figure... and that might've made it just cohesive enough so that i wouldn't've felt compelled to write this caveat...

If I remember correctly the guys who created the website would often drive out the booth in the middle of nowhere and spend a weekend camping by the phone waiting for it to ring. At first nobody seemed to ring the phone, but once they set up a website on the net they posted the number and from then on when they were camped out the phone would ring from all around the world. They post pictures on the site of them waiting for the phone to ring. They even made a recording of some of the conversations they had from the telephone with different people around the world. What was strange is that the phone company use to service this booth on a regular basis, even before anybody would seem to be using it. I have just seen the trailer and I must say the film looks very interesting. It's a pleasant surprise to see Steve Guttenberg is attached to this project. I have always liked this guy and he has sorely been missed from the big screen. I for one with be checking this movie out when it is released here in the UK. Keep an eye on this one folks, I think it's going to be a classic.