I saw this movie on TV around 2002 or 2003. It’s possible that the movie is older than that, but I’m not sure. It was in English and the movie was in color.

The movie centers on a man (I remember that he was blond, he might have been named Bob) who is driving and as he is passing a nearby town the motor of his car breaks. He goes to a cafe to ask for help and hears a payphone ringing. He answers the phone and hears a strange voice.

Later he goes to get his car fixed at the local mechanic’s but he isn’t working that day so the man has to spend the day in the town.

As the movie continues he can’t leave the town because every time he goes to the mechanic’s they say the parts haven’t come in to fix his car. Essentially he is trapped in the town.

He becomes friendly with the people in the town and if I remember right he was an architect and they gave him some related jobs to do.

Throughout the movie the man sees in various moments a black SUV is following him. He goes to the mechanics and it’s on the corner. He goes to the diner and it’s parked in front- but it never has a driver- it appears that the SUV moves by itself.

Any time the man tries to get close to the SUV it starts to move and try to run him over.

Towards the end of the movie he’s finally able to get close to the car and open the door. The car starts talking through the radio and tells him that the car chose him to stay in the town and has been controlling all the things happening to him since he arrived to the town. That the SUV was the voice that the man had heard on the payphone when he first got there.

The SUV wanted the town to become important and because of that gave the man jobs to build important buildings in the town.

Finally, the man gives up and accepts that he will never be able to leave the town.

One day another man arrives to the town – the same as the first man- his car broke down and when he asks for help in the same cafe the first man happens to be there. The first man passes him a paper with information to find the hotel but the paper actually says “don’t answer the phone and run”

Finally this second man doesn’t take his advice and at the very end of the movie when the telephone rings he answers it.