Without going into spoilers and based on what the trailer of the film shows us, Mr. Harrigan’s Phone depicts the life of a young boy called Craig (played by Jaeden Martell of It fame) who takes on a job reading books to an aging billionaire (Donald Sutherland). Craig enjoys the conversations he has with the old man and the two become friends. He gets him an iPhone (the first ever model, it seems) as a gift and gives him a phone nickname of “Pirateking”.
Also, Craig is having trouble with a bully at school and in one of his meetings with his billionaire buddy, asks him how he would deal with a person who tried to take advantage of him. To which the old guy replies: “Harshly”.
Mr. Harrigan’s Phone | Official Trailer | Netflix
But soon after the billionaire dies and Craig is shown slipping the iPhone into his pocket while his body is kept in a coffin. The bully problem still lingers and once after Craig gets beaten up, it looks from the trailer that he called on the buried iPhone and at one time, said (perhaps referring to the bully): “I want him to get what he deserves”. Now how would you react if Craig got a text or even a phone call from his billionaire friend’s iPhone, the device that should ideally be lying deep inside the earth? And now, the horror and the mystery both begin. As someone dies mysteriously and Craig suspects that maybe he is an accomplice in that murder.
The trailer ends with the line: “A person shouldn’t call out unless they want an answer.”
