Frank Langella,
Elliott Gould,
Laura Harring,
Anabel Sosa,
Helen Stenborg
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When a whistle-blowing executive at an international energy firm prepares to expose his company's corrupt practices in Latin America, he secretly hires a private detective to track his every move for ... read more
DVD Release Date: April 14, 2009
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Flixster Reviews (67)
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February 21, 2010Pretty cool movie a Private Investigator is hired by a man who wants the PI to follow someone, who the man who hired him. Twist and turns throughout. I enjoyed the suspense and Drama I'd give it 4 stars
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March 11, 2010In "The Caller," Jimmy Stevens(Frank Langella), who after many years of being corrupt, has a crisis of conscience that causes him to not only blow the whistle on his employers in the energy industry, but also publicly expose them as the murdering scumbags they really are. This a... read more
Critic Reviews
February 13, 2009
Lou Lumenick, New York Post
February 13, 2009
Stephen Holden, New York Times
A corporate crime drama that runs fatally amok.
February 11, 2009
Rex Reed, New York Observer
The Caller is a loopy, talky, 92-minute two-hander with Elliott Gould and Frank Langella (on a downward spiral following his juicy triumph in Frost/Nixon), written and directed by a force to forget ca... Full Review
February 10, 2009
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice
We're left to wonder why we're watching Gould scramble for clues to a mystery we've been given the solution to. Full Review
May 6, 2008
Ronnie Scheib, Variety
Frank Langella's note-perfect, tour-de-force turn as a man elegantly shaping his own demise is nicely counterpointed by a shambling Elliott Gould as a bird-watching private eye. Full Review
July 16, 2009
Paul Chambers, CNNRadio
Painfully obvious where this film is going after just ten minutes. Poorly written, poorly conceived. Full Review
February 12, 2009
Kam Williams, Sly Fox
Director Richard Leder was lucky enough to land actors of the caliber of Oscar-nominees Elliot Gould and Frank Langella only to squander their collective talents in service of a tedious yawner. Full Review
February 11, 2009
Karina Longworth, Time Out New York
There's a vaguely appealing elegance to the way the film moves -- that is, when the actors stop spouting laughably portentous dialogue long enough for one to appreciate the film's pacing. Full Review
February 9, 2009
Jason Clark, Slant Magazine
Sadly, The Caller, the second feature from director Richard Ledes, doesn't allow its leading men the luxury of their legacies, instead forcing a wan quasi-thriller in the space where a laidback charac... Full Review
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