Flightplan (Full Screen Edition)
by Robert Schwentke
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Actor: Jodie Foster, Kate Beahan, Michael Irby, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean BeanDirector: Robert Schwentke
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
Producer: Brian Grazer
Producer: Charles J.D. Schlissel
Producer: Erica Huggins
Producer: James Whitaker
Producer: Robert DiNozzi
Writer: Billy Ray
Writer: Peter A. Dowling
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Unknown; German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language); French (Dubbed), Unknown; Spanish (Dubbed), Unknown
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 98 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-01-24
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Product features:
- Academy Award(R) winner Jodie Foster (Best Actress, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, 1991) gives an outstanding performance in the heart-pumping action thriller FLIGHTPLAN. Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's (Foster) 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle,
Movie Reviews of Flightplan (Full Screen Edition)
Movie Review: Jodie Foster: the female "die-hard" heroine
Summary: 5 Stars
A gem of a movie. I loved every minute of it. Jodie Foster is the mother of a girl who is suddenly lost on a plane in mid flight. The girl is not registered on the boarding list and the plane crew things she's gone bonkers and they find documents on her pointing to the fact that her daughter died earlier. Add to the fact that she is on the plane to
actually carry the body of her deceased husband (who apparently for illogical reasons jumped of a building committing suicide) back to USA. The movie begins with her trying to come to grips with her husband's death and we see that the daughter was with her but then we also think whether Jodie just hallucinated all this due to her just recent grief on
the loss of her husband and a supposedly additional loss of her daughter (as per some documents on her). She claims it has all been fixed and that the girl is on the plane. Being from the engineering department of that same plane's engine manufacturing company, she has intimate understanding of the design and schematics of the plane. Its kind of like a mini die hard movie inside flight plan. There are tense moments with passengers, airhostesses, pilot and an interesting and very important air marshall. Till about half way its a suspense film where you dont know what is real and unreal (Is Jodie imagining stuff that her daughter is alive ?) and then the movie becomes a thriller action adventure. A non existant large model shooting set was built as a plane with no outside walls so they could take fast moving rail shots or dolly shots. The extras section of dvd show som real cool production design that went into building the set. They made an actual new airplane interior model. With specific positioning of cameras with tracks and rails to move within the aircraft. Jodie is so good at these "fight back" characters. "Panic room" and now recently "the brave one".She is the female version of the die-hard spirit. She refuses to give up in any situation. She has this icy steely determined look, at the same time a look of vulnerability and she has the gym physique that you believe she has the physical reserves needed also to fight back. She does well in these "survival against all odds" kinds of characters.
regards, Vikram
Summary of Flightplan (Full Screen Edition)
Academy Award(R) winner Jodie Foster (Best Actress, THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, 1991) gives an outstanding performance in the heart-pumping action thriller FLIGHTPLAN. Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's (Foster) 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter. From the producer of APOLLO 13 and A BEAUTIFUL MIND, FLIGHTPLAN is an intense, suspense-filled thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat the entire flight.Like a lot of stylishly persuasive thrillers, Flightplan is more fun to watch than it is to think about. There's much to admire in this hermetically sealed mystery, in which a propulsion engineer and grieving widow (Jodie Foster) takes her 6-year-old daughter (and a coffin containing her husband's body) on a transatlantic flight aboard a brand-new jumbo jet she helped design, and faces a mother's worst nightmare when her daughter (Marlene Lawston) goes missing. But how can that be? Is she delusional? Are the flight crew, the captain (Sean Bean) and a seemingly sympathetic sky marshal (Peter Sarsgaard) playing out some kind of conspiratorial abduction? In making his first English-language feature, German director Robert Schwentke milks the mother's dilemma for all it's worth, and Foster's intense yet subtly nuanced performance (which builds on a fair amount of post-9/11 paranoia) encompasses all the shifting emotions required to grab and hold your attention. Alas, this upgraded riff on Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (not to mention Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake is Missing) is ultimately too preposterous to hold itself together. Flightplan gives us a dazzling tour of the jumbo jet's high-tech innards, and its suspense is intelligently maintained all the way through to a cathartic conclusion, but the plot-heavy mechanics break down under scrutiny. Your best bet is to fasten your seatbelt and enjoy the thrills on a purely emotional level--a strategy that worked equally well with Panic Room, Foster's previous thriller about a mother and daughter in peril. --Jeff Shannon
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