📱 Recently, I came across a curious Netflix film titled Mr. Harrigan’s Phone. Here's a quick review, along with some basic information and thoughts on whether or not it's worth watching.
1. Basic Information 📝
- Director: John Lee Hancock
- Runtime: 104 minutes
- Rating: PG-13
- Genre: Mystery
2. Trailer ▶️
3. Cast 🎭
- Jaeden Martell as Craig
- Donald Sutherland as Mr. Harrigan
- Joe Tippett as Craig's Father
- Kirby Howell-Baptiste as Ms. Hart
4. Ratings & Plot Summary 💬
- IMDb: 6.0
- Rotten Tomatoes: Critics 40%, Audience 50%
📚 The story follows Craig, a young boy who becomes close to an elderly billionaire, Mr. Harrigan, by reading books to him. Over time, they form a strange bond. On Christmas, Mr. Harrigan gifts Craig scratch-off lottery tickets. One year, Craig wins $3,000 and buys Mr. Harrigan an iPhone.
📵 Although Mr. Harrigan is skeptical of the smartphone, he grows addicted to it. Eventually, he passes away—and at his funeral, Craig places the phone in his coffin.
💀 After the burial, Craig begins receiving strange messages from Mr. Harrigan’s phone, and unsettling events start to unfold. People who Craig complains about seem to die mysteriously.
😰 Craig is plagued with guilt. He suspects a connection between his texts and these deaths. In fear and confusion, he throws the phone into a lake—hoping to end it all.
5. Should You Watch It? 🤔
Honestly? The film starts with great potential but ends weakly. The bond between Craig and Mr. Harrigan, the iPhone twist—it all builds toward something thrilling. But the payoff feels lacking.
The central mystery—why do messages come from the grave?—is never truly explained. Nor is Craig’s inner conflict fully explored. In the end, he simply dumps the phone and walks away.
It’s a case of big ideas with underwhelming execution.
📲 That said, I think the film raises important questions—especially through Mr. Harrigan’s early thoughts. How much influence do messages from our phones really have? What’s the line between communication and obsession?
If handled carefully, smartphones are useful. But the film seems to offer a subtle warning: misinformation, overreliance, and emotional projection onto devices can lead to unintended consequences.
Was Craig’s belief that his messages caused deaths irrational? Maybe. But that belief itself is what makes this story unsettling.
The truth may lie not in the supernatural, but in how we let technology shape our reality. 🌐
This interpretation, of course, is my own. Feel free to draw your own conclusions 🙂
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