Halle Berry, new movie thriller, based on emergency 911 call centers

Halle Berry, has no concerns of being typecast and relegated to playing limited acting roles. Oscar winner, Berry, has played a role from uneducated waitress, in Monster's Ball, to super-hero, in Catwoman and Bond girl, in Die Another Day.

In "The Call," Berry portrays an over-worked, stressed-out, 911 emergency operator, at a call center, routing life emergency calls.

Jan. 8, The Film Stage writes, "A first-look image that’s about as by-the-book as humanly possible. That it manages to make the gorgeous Halle Berry look like a general average stress-ball-squeezing telephone operator."

The official movie synopsis places Berry's character, "a veteran 911 operator, Jordan, takes a life-altering call from a teenage girl (Abigail Breslin) who has just been abducted, Jordan realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl’s life."

The movie co-stars, Michael Eklund, Justina Machado, Abigail Breslin, (Little Miss Sunshine, ZombieLand) and Morris Chestnut.

The movie is directed by, Brad Anderson, (The Machinist, The Fringe-2008-2011) and screenplay by Rich D'Ovidio, (Exit Wounds, Thirteen Ghost.) The movie is produced my Sony Tristar pictures, release date March 15, 2013.

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