Flightplan (Widescreen Edition)

Flightplan (Widescreen Edition)
by Robert Schwentke, Karen Inwood Somers

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Actor: Billy Ray, Jodie Foster, Peter A. Dowling, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean
Director: Karen Inwood Somers, Robert Schwentke
Brand: FOSTER,JODIE
Writer: Billy Ray
Writer: Peter A. Dowling
Producer: Brian Grazer
Producer: Charles J.D. Schlissel
Producer: Adam Hauck
Producer: Erica Huggins
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Arabic (Original Language); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Unknown; German (Original Language); Italian (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Unknown; Spanish (Dubbed), Unknown
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, 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

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Movie Review: Flightplan Review
Summary: 5 Stars

Jodie Foster is absolutely fantastic in this movie. She is portrayed as being a little unstable, as is her daughter, as they get on the plane from Berlin to NY to bring her husband's body back to US to be buried. Suddenly her daughter disappears and all hell breaks loose on the plane. Nobody saw her board with her daughter, so everyone thinks she's a nutt, and it all goes crazy from there while she searches the plane for her daughter. Very dramatic & exciting, if I say much more I will give away too much. Surprise twists, excellent acting. Lots of suspense. A must-see movie for sure.

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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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