Poe-17 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.

akasevich I saw this movie at the Palm Springs International Film Festival a few days ago and really enjoyed the experience. The film offered everything I hoped to enjoy during my first film fest experience. It was creative, well thought out, featured phenomenal acting and complicated characters, and it tied together the multiple stories in a very natural way. Thanks to the producer, director, and cast for a memorable experience and for taking the time to speak with the audience in more depth about their vision and the process! (Thanks also to Christine Elise McCarthy for graciously taking a picture!)

acolben In a time where the corporations of the motion picture industry give the public rehashes of films already made, this film rises above the studio mentality and gives you something that is......original. Not only is the that, but it makes you think about the modes of communication that todays technology offer the public and how these modes have hindered true intimacy, as well as the comfortability (or lack thereof) that people have with intimacy. The stories in this film are gently insane, but only as insane as real life stories in real people's lives. The writing, is wonderful, the story is excellent, the editing is superb, and the acting is quite good.

skmills I have been going over MPB in my mind on a fairly regular basis since I saw it at the FirstGlance Hollywood Film Fest and I again commend director/writer John Putch for really capturing in such a raw and gentle way the extremes of need and outreach. When I find myself actually believing that the guy is going to get rid of the alien bugs (on that wonderfully created zany, hopelessly neurotic woman), I know the casting and writing are doing their jobs very well. I also thought the "sane" half of the lesbian couple was amazing. Also, the scene where the real estate lie was revealed had such an unexpected punch to it. Every single actor was off the dial. Not one wrong note and hundreds of great choices. Having it on the outskirts of Vegas creates such a symbiosis between 2 emptiness-es, we realize there is nowhere to hide. We are all drowning in the wide open vacuum of our own disconnection, no matter how we try to dress it up. It is really a phenomenal indictment of what happens to the American Dreamer when the roots of the soul have atrophied and only the unnourished surface is left.