Flightplan (Widescreen Edition)
by Karen Inwood Somers, Robert Schwentke
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Actor: Jodie Foster, Kate Beahan, Michael Irby, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean BeanDirector: Karen Inwood Somers, Robert Schwentke
Brand: BUENA VISTA HOME VIDEO
Producer: Adam Hauck
Producer: Brian Grazer
Producer: Charles J.D. Schlissel
Producer: Erica Huggins
Writer: Billy Ray
Writer: Peter A. Dowling
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Unknown; Spanish (Original Language), Unknown; French (Dubbed), Unknown; Spanish (Dubbed), Unknown
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
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:
- TESTED
- UNKNOWN DATE
Movie Reviews of Flightplan (Widescreen Edition)
Movie Review: Phantoms of the mind, or a reality of a terrible conspiracy?
Summary: 5 Stars
The premise might sound a little silly: a mother wakens after a 3-hour nap on a plane, and finds her six-year-old daughter missing. The passengers and crew are understandably not very concerned. They're on a plane, after all - how far away could the little girl be?
The tension of the film unfolds in finding out just how far that might be - and whether or not the woman Kyle Pratt, a propulsion engineer who had worked on the engines of this new class of aircraft, was imagining having brought her daughter on board.
She could have. Her husband died less than a week ago, in what seemed like an accidental fall. Terrible fears of his possibly having committed suicide are lying in Kyle's mind, because it's hard to understand how he could possibly have fallen. She hallucinates him next to her in a Berlin train station, trying to lose herself in the comfort of this imagining because it's more bearable than the empty hollow feeling of the truth of her loss.
As Kyle goes hand-in-hand with the apparition of her husband to sit outside after she returns home from ensuring that his coffin is sealed at the mortuary, ready for transportation to America where her parents are, a stunning and beautiful scene is shown of "his" arm sweeping clean the snow from a bench, and birds dispersing in sudden flight. The camera looks down at the face of Kyle, and she is (of course) alone...
So we know that this is a woman holding in a terrible pain and under an enormous tension of loss. The opening image of the film is sheer genius - Jodie Foster's back is to the camera, and in that still image the viewer can quite literally see the pain and the hollowness caused by that pain of that lonely figure.
Significant moments are seen when Jodie's character, Kyle, goes inside to check on her six-year-old daughter, a solemn charmer with a strong look of Jodie Foster herself. The daughter is clearly suffering from the loss as well, and Kyle, as she goes to close the curtains, sees two men of Middle Eastern appearance in a room opposite. They seem to be looking in her direction. Is it of importance? Does it mean anything? Yes - but perhaps not as one might expect.
The feeling of nightmare implacability as Kyle wakens on the plane to find her vulnerable daughter nowhere to be found notches up the tension with a well-judged hand. It's true that there are several points in the plot which stretch plausibility a little, but this doesn't lessen the impact, particularly as the important point here is not - who did it, but rather - is she imagining it all?
It's because the character of Kyle (and what is real to her) is central that the deliberate slowing of pace for scenes that show her fragile state are so important. The scene with the sympathetic psychologist is a masterpiece of timing, allowing Jodie Foster to show how easily a vulnerable individual can have their mind convinced of imagining something, irrespective of whether the events that are being doubted might be true.
This is a psychological thriller above all, and while some viewers might well see the resolution coming, the moment of revelation is beautifully done. I have to admit I did not like the final scene with Kyle's exit from the plane (you will know what I mean when you see it, and will understand, I think, why I consider it cheesy and not of the same high standard as the majority of this film), but in almost every respect, this is a high quality thriller that handles itself very well.
Recommended. I give this five stars for the superb acting and for a directing style that really worked for the most part.
Summary of Flightplan (Widescreen 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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