Cellular is a 2004 thriller film directed by David R. Ellis and starring Kim Basinger, Chris Evans, Jason Statham and William H. Macy. The screenplay was written by Chris Morgan, Larry Cohen and J. Mackye Gruber . The film opens with Jessica Martin , a high school biology teacher, talking to her son Ricky, while escorting him to the school bus. After she returns home, mysterious assailants enter her home through the back door, kill her house maid, kidnap her 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 irresponsible. He believes the call is a joke, but Jessica persuades him to go to the police. At the police station, desk sergeant Mooney tells him to go to the detectives on the fourth floor.
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| Release date: | September 10, 2004 |
| Directed by: | David R. Ellis |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 94 Minutes |
| Producer: | Dean Devlin, Lauren Lloyd |
| Music by: | G. Love, John Ottman |
| Screenplay by: | Larry Cohen, Chris Morgan |
| Estimated budget: | $25,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action |