Farrelly brothers movie about losing your cell phone and gaining your life

When actress Sarah Marshall dumps aspiring musician Peter Bretter for rock star Aldous Snow, Peter's world comes crashing down. His best friend Brian suggests that Peter should get away from everything and to fly off to Hawaii to escape all his problems. After arriving in Hawaii and meeting the beautiful receptionist Rachel Jansen, Peter is shocked to see not only Aldous in Hawaii, but also Sarah.

After a great first date, a young man drunkenly loses his smart phone. Two friends bet him that he can't make it through an entire weekend without his device, and he must learn to look up and enjoy life untethered from his screen.

Earnest works hard for something big to happen in his life. What begins as a normal day navigating the rat race of New York City turns unexpected when on his way to an important work meeting, a happenstance encounter with a beautiful woman combined with losing his phone sends him on a journey that reveals a greater desire within his heart.

Shot entirely on a cell phone, the film follows a fictional version of writer/director/star Will Sterling, a similarly out of work, struggling actor trying to impress Hollywood by making a movie on a cell phone.

As closeted teenager, Yuval, loses his mobile phone which is then found by a stranger. When the pair meet at the park, at first the stranger asks for a reward for finding it, but it soon becomes apparent that he wants more than what the boy is prepared to give.

Turn off your phone in the cinema... or face the consequences.

A student misplaces his phone and must race across campus to find it.

Follow a lost mobile phone as it is passed around to random people. There's just one thing no one realizes: the owner of this phone is dead.

2008 short film

MAN VS PHONE is an award winning feature film about a frustrated, isolated, and unemployed artist/activist/office assistant who becomes increasingly reliant on his cell phone. However, when it uses smart locks and blackmail to trap him inside his small garage apartment, he must figure out how to escape by outsmarting his smart phone... WINNER, Best Writer, Feature Film at the 2024 North Idaho Film Festival (noidff.com). Now streaming on YouTube and Vimeo: youtube.com/@alexanderbergermovies and vimeo.com/alexanderbergermovies