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* TrustPassword: Mac asks a woman claiming to be Felix's wife if Felix had any birthmarks, scars, or tattoos. [[spoiler:She fails the test, so they refuse to give her the phone]].
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* TrustPassword: Mac asks a woman claiming to be Felix's wife if Felix her spouse had any birthmarks, scars, or tattoos. [[spoiler:She fails the test, so they refuse to give her the phone]].
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* Blatant Burglar: After the bad guys learn who Chase is, [[spoiler:Harry]] breaks into the Pattersons' house wearing a ski mask and demands the phone.
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''Message in a Cell Phone'' is a 2000 straight-to-VHS mystery film later released on DVD. The film is aimed at pre-teens and was filmed in St. George, Utah.
The film starts with the trial of the drug enforcement officer Mitchell Patterson, who is imprisoned for smuggling drugs, though he insists it was a set-up by corrupt officers. Later, his 11-year-old son Chase and his friends Jeremy and Mac go for a swim at a nearby hotel pool. Chase finds that some guy left his cell phone by the pool and tries to return it, but he hears gunshots inside the hotel room and panics. Chase and his friends learn that the cell phone belongs to Felix Reiser, a drug enforcement officer.
The film starts with the trial of the drug enforcement officer Mitchell Patterson, who is imprisoned for smuggling drugs, though he insists it was a set-up by corrupt officers. Later, his 11-year-old son Chase and his friends Jeremy and Mac go for a swim at a nearby hotel pool. Chase finds that some guy left his cell phone by the pool and tries to return it, but he hears gunshots inside the hotel room and panics. Chase and his friends learn that the cell phone belongs to Felix Reiser, a drug enforcement officer.
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''Message in a Cell Phone'' is a 2000 straight-to-VHS mystery film later released on VHS and later on DVD. The film is aimed at pre-teens pre-teens, and was filmed shot in St. George, Utah.
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The film starts with the trial of the drug enforcement officer Mitchell Patterson, who is imprisoned for smuggling drugs, though he insists it was a set-up by corrupt officers. Later, his 11-year-old son Chase and his friends Jeremy and Mac go for a swim at a nearby hotel pool. Chase finds that some guy left his cell phone by the pool and tries to return it, but he hears gunshots inside the hotel room and panics. Chase and his friends learn that the cell phone belongs to Felix Reiser, a drug enforcementofficer.
officer, and that there appears to be an important message behind a pass-phrase. Meanwhile, a man named Snyder is determined to get that phone and delete the message.
The film starts with the trial of the drug enforcement officer Mitchell Patterson, who is imprisoned for smuggling drugs, though he insists it was a set-up by corrupt officers. Later, his 11-year-old son Chase and his friends Jeremy and Mac go for a swim at a nearby hotel pool. Chase finds that some guy left his cell phone by the pool and tries to return it, but he hears gunshots inside the hotel room and panics. Chase and his friends learn that the cell phone belongs to Felix Reiser, a drug enforcement
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* FiveFiveFive: The cellphone's number is 555-2324. The secret message has mentions the number (702) 555-3222.
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* MacGuffin: The cell phone and its message.message, which is hidden behind the pass-phrase [[spoiler:2446373 (CHINESE)]].
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* SearchingTheStalls: [[spoiler:Harry]] searches through the stalls in the bathrooms to find Chase, who manages to evade detection.
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* SearchingTheStalls: [[spoiler:Harry]] searches through the stalls in the bathrooms to find Chase, who manages to evade detection.detection by quickly moving between stalls.
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''Message in a Cell Phone'' is a 2000 straight-to-VHS mystery film later released on DVD. The film is aimed at pre-teens and was filmed in St. George, Utah.
The film starts with the trial of the drug enforcement officer Mitchell Patterson, who is imprisoned for smuggling drugs, though he insists it was a set-up by corrupt officers. Later, his 11-year-old son Chase and his friends Jeremy and Mac go for a swim at a nearby hotel pool. Chase finds that some guy left his cell phone by the pool and tries to return it, but he hears gunshots inside the hotel room and panics. Chase and his friends learn that the cell phone belongs to Felix Reiser, a drug enforcement officer.
!!''Message in a Cell Phone'' contains the following tropes:
* FiveFiveFive: The cellphone's number is 555-2324. The secret message has the number (702) 555-3222.
* BigBad: Snyder is the "man in charge" of the drug drop operation, who's [[TheDragon helped]] by [[spoiler:Harry]].
* BlandNameProduct: The cell phone in the intro is from "Yolkia Technologies", a play on Nokia Technologies.
* Blatant Burglar: After the bad guys learn who Chase is, [[spoiler:Harry]] breaks into the Pattersons' house wearing a ski mask and demands the phone.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: The "gunshots" in the film sound more like laser rays than actual guns.
* CasanovaWannabe: Mac tries to sit by some ladies at the pool, but they quickly move to stop him. In the pool he tries to approach a girl, but his NoseNuggets scare her away.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Chase randomly gets in possession of a cell phone with a message [[spoiler:which exonerates his father from criminal charges.]]
* DirtyCop: Snyder, the captain of the Drug Enforcement Agency, is also involved in a drug smuggling operation. [[spoiler:He gets other officers to get the phone from Chase.]]
* DistinguishingMark: butterfly tattoo. The kids later use this to tell if a woman claiming to be his wife is actually who she says she is.
* ConspicuousCG: The opening credits has the camera flying around a CG cellphone.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:The kids need to KeepAway the cell phone from a woman claiming to be Felix's wife and they end up on a bed. Jeremy holds down her legs, Mac sits on her back to pin her left hand, while Chase wrestles it out of her other. They are full clothed.]]
* EasilyOverheardConversation: Mac and Jeremy look for clues in the hotel room and find a gun. At the same time they get a call and exclaim that they found a gun which must have been used to shoot "the fat guy". The fake Felix hears this and is confused at first, but he later figures it out.
* ElSpanishO: Chase approaches some Hispanic cleaner ladies by saying "excusada me" and tries to ask them where the "swimma poola" (swimming pool) is. Brock and Jeremy use the opportunity to hide in their laundry carts.
* FatComicRelief: During the PoolScene, the girls pick up the main characters to throw them in the pool, but when they get to Jeremy, he's too fat for them to pick up.
* {{Frameup}}: Chase's dad is jailed because a corrupt police officer framed him in a drug operation.
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:The man who pretended to be Felix and the woman who pretended to be Felix's wife are just officers following orders. In the end they rescue Chase from Harry.]]
* JeopardyThinkingMusic:
** The opening notes from this song play when Jeremy asks the guy claiming to be Felix Reiser why he needs the cell phone when he already has one. It happens again when the kids ask him who the guy from the pool is.
** It also plays when Mac asks a woman claiming to be Felix's wife if Felix had any birthmarks, scars, or tattoos on his body.
* KeepAway: [[spoiler:The woman claiming to be Felix's wife fails the TrustPassword, so the kids have to stop her from getting the phone, first by tossing it around in a circle.]]
* KidAnova: The three main characters all have a thing for the ladies, though Mac is always trying to impress the ladies.
* MacGuffin: The cell phone and its message.
* ManBitesMan: Chase bites the fingers of the BlatantBurglar who's chasing him.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Harry is first introduced as an ally to the Pattersons, but it's later revealed that he's working directly with the BigBad.]]
* NightmareSequence: Jeremy has a dream where he's fishing and he catches the cell phone. He wakes up in a sweat when the man with the butterfly tattoo asks for it, though he doesn't fling up.
* NoseNuggets: Mac starts flirting with a girl at the pool, but she just looks at him strangely. He interprets this as a sign that she likes him, but he soon finds out he actually has visible snot coming out his nose.
* OralFixation: Jeremy usually has a lollipop.
* PoolScene: The kids go swimming at a pool.
* PowerTrio: Chase, Mac, and Jeremy.
* SearchingTheStalls: [[spoiler:Harry]] searches through the stalls in the bathrooms to find Chase, who manages to evade detection.
* SignatureItemClue: Felix's body is holding a button from his killer.
* SlipperySwimsuit: This happens to Jeremy when he's diving, and all the girls at the pool start giggling. Jeremy later comments that his swimsuit is too big.
* SnoopingLittleKid: Chase thinks he hears a gunshot in a hotel room and convinces his friends they have to investigate.
* TrustPassword: Mac asks a woman claiming to be Felix's wife if Felix had any birthmarks, scars, or tattoos. [[spoiler:She fails the test, so they refuse to give her the phone]].
* WhamLine: Jeremy is shocked to hear his father's name when he first goes to the hotel room to return the cell phone.
--> [[spoiler:'''Harry:''']] Gonna be a hero like Mitchell Patterson, huh? Look where it got him.
* YouMeddlingKids: A non-villainous example. [[spoiler:The guy who previously pretended to be Felix turns out to be a good guy, and he gives credit to the three main kids for bringing Snyder to justice.]]
The film starts with the trial of the drug enforcement officer Mitchell Patterson, who is imprisoned for smuggling drugs, though he insists it was a set-up by corrupt officers. Later, his 11-year-old son Chase and his friends Jeremy and Mac go for a swim at a nearby hotel pool. Chase finds that some guy left his cell phone by the pool and tries to return it, but he hears gunshots inside the hotel room and panics. Chase and his friends learn that the cell phone belongs to Felix Reiser, a drug enforcement officer.
!!''Message in a Cell Phone'' contains the following tropes:
* FiveFiveFive: The cellphone's number is 555-2324. The secret message has the number (702) 555-3222.
* BigBad: Snyder is the "man in charge" of the drug drop operation, who's [[TheDragon helped]] by [[spoiler:Harry]].
* BlandNameProduct: The cell phone in the intro is from "Yolkia Technologies", a play on Nokia Technologies.
* Blatant Burglar: After the bad guys learn who Chase is, [[spoiler:Harry]] breaks into the Pattersons' house wearing a ski mask and demands the phone.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: The "gunshots" in the film sound more like laser rays than actual guns.
* CasanovaWannabe: Mac tries to sit by some ladies at the pool, but they quickly move to stop him. In the pool he tries to approach a girl, but his NoseNuggets scare her away.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Chase randomly gets in possession of a cell phone with a message [[spoiler:which exonerates his father from criminal charges.]]
* DirtyCop: Snyder, the captain of the Drug Enforcement Agency, is also involved in a drug smuggling operation. [[spoiler:He gets other officers to get the phone from Chase.]]
* DistinguishingMark: butterfly tattoo. The kids later use this to tell if a woman claiming to be his wife is actually who she says she is.
* ConspicuousCG: The opening credits has the camera flying around a CG cellphone.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:The kids need to KeepAway the cell phone from a woman claiming to be Felix's wife and they end up on a bed. Jeremy holds down her legs, Mac sits on her back to pin her left hand, while Chase wrestles it out of her other. They are full clothed.]]
* EasilyOverheardConversation: Mac and Jeremy look for clues in the hotel room and find a gun. At the same time they get a call and exclaim that they found a gun which must have been used to shoot "the fat guy". The fake Felix hears this and is confused at first, but he later figures it out.
* ElSpanishO: Chase approaches some Hispanic cleaner ladies by saying "excusada me" and tries to ask them where the "swimma poola" (swimming pool) is. Brock and Jeremy use the opportunity to hide in their laundry carts.
* FatComicRelief: During the PoolScene, the girls pick up the main characters to throw them in the pool, but when they get to Jeremy, he's too fat for them to pick up.
* {{Frameup}}: Chase's dad is jailed because a corrupt police officer framed him in a drug operation.
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:The man who pretended to be Felix and the woman who pretended to be Felix's wife are just officers following orders. In the end they rescue Chase from Harry.]]
* JeopardyThinkingMusic:
** The opening notes from this song play when Jeremy asks the guy claiming to be Felix Reiser why he needs the cell phone when he already has one. It happens again when the kids ask him who the guy from the pool is.
** It also plays when Mac asks a woman claiming to be Felix's wife if Felix had any birthmarks, scars, or tattoos on his body.
* KeepAway: [[spoiler:The woman claiming to be Felix's wife fails the TrustPassword, so the kids have to stop her from getting the phone, first by tossing it around in a circle.]]
* KidAnova: The three main characters all have a thing for the ladies, though Mac is always trying to impress the ladies.
* MacGuffin: The cell phone and its message.
* ManBitesMan: Chase bites the fingers of the BlatantBurglar who's chasing him.
* TheMole: [[spoiler:Harry is first introduced as an ally to the Pattersons, but it's later revealed that he's working directly with the BigBad.]]
* NightmareSequence: Jeremy has a dream where he's fishing and he catches the cell phone. He wakes up in a sweat when the man with the butterfly tattoo asks for it, though he doesn't fling up.
* NoseNuggets: Mac starts flirting with a girl at the pool, but she just looks at him strangely. He interprets this as a sign that she likes him, but he soon finds out he actually has visible snot coming out his nose.
* OralFixation: Jeremy usually has a lollipop.
* PoolScene: The kids go swimming at a pool.
* PowerTrio: Chase, Mac, and Jeremy.
* SearchingTheStalls: [[spoiler:Harry]] searches through the stalls in the bathrooms to find Chase, who manages to evade detection.
* SignatureItemClue: Felix's body is holding a button from his killer.
* SlipperySwimsuit: This happens to Jeremy when he's diving, and all the girls at the pool start giggling. Jeremy later comments that his swimsuit is too big.
* SnoopingLittleKid: Chase thinks he hears a gunshot in a hotel room and convinces his friends they have to investigate.
* TrustPassword: Mac asks a woman claiming to be Felix's wife if Felix had any birthmarks, scars, or tattoos. [[spoiler:She fails the test, so they refuse to give her the phone]].
* WhamLine: Jeremy is shocked to hear his father's name when he first goes to the hotel room to return the cell phone.
--> [[spoiler:'''Harry:''']] Gonna be a hero like Mitchell Patterson, huh? Look where it got him.
* YouMeddlingKids: A non-villainous example. [[spoiler:The guy who previously pretended to be Felix turns out to be a good guy, and he gives credit to the three main kids for bringing Snyder to justice.]]
