Investigative reporter Ji-won begins to receive a series of menacing calls. To escape the terrifying and relentless clanging of the telephone, she changes her number and moves out. But the threatening campaign of terror continues unabated.
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Title: Pon (2002)
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| Ha Ji-Won | ... | Ji-won | |
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Kim Yu-Mi | ... | Ho-jeong |
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Woo-jae Choi | ... | Chang-hoon |
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Ji-yeon Choi | ... | Jin-hie |
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Seo-woo Eun | ... | Yeong-ju |
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| Jeong-yun Choi | ... | Woman in elevator | |
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Seong-hwan Jeong | ||
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After writing a series of articles about pedophilia, the journalist Ji-won receives threatening calls on her cellular and she changes her number. Her close friend Ho-jung and her husband Chang-hoon invite Ji-won to move to their house in Bang Bae that is empty and closed. When the young daughter of her friends Young-Su answers a phone call in her mobile phone, the girl screams and changes her behavior, feeling a great attraction for her father and rejecting her mother. Meanwhile Ji-won receives weird phone calls and sees and listens to a teenager playing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" on the piano. After investigating her phone number, Ji-won discovers that the original owner of the number, Jin-hee, had vanished and the two next owners of the number have mysteriously died in unusual circumstances. Her further investigation about Jin-hee discloses that the teenager was absolutely disturbed with her obsessive love for a man that had broken the relationship with her, and later she ... Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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telephone terror | extramarital affair | female frontal nudity | dream | screaming |Taglines:
The Last Call You'll Ever Get ...Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for violence/disturbing images and some sexual material | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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26 July 2002 (South Korea) See more »Also Known As:
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The biggest problem this film has is that everyone's first impression of it is "Ringu (1998) with a cell phone". While understandable, it's not really a fair assessment. While both deal with spirits using modern technology to exact their revenge, Phone is more a story about personal betrayal and revenge that uses the supernatural as a means of exposing the actions of the living characters. It's not really groundbreaking, but overall I found it to be a very enjoyable film.
Special recognition, in my opinion, should go to Seo-woo Eun, who played Yeong-ju. The kid has a definite talent for looking creepy.