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Flightplan (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan, Michael Irby Directed By: Robert Schwentke, Karen Inwood Somers Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 24, 2006 Running Time: 98 minutes Theatrical Release Date: September 23, 2005
Product Description: A bereaved woman questions her own sanity when her young daughter seemingly disappears aboard an airplane that is mid-flight. Genre: Feature Film-Drama Rating: PG13 Release Date: 22-AUG-2006 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com: 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
A serious "AIRPLANE?" For some reason, I couldn't take this movie seriously. It was the way that all the people looked at Jodie Foster (Kyle) when she told everyone that her daughter was missing on the plane. The flight attendants and passengers looked like they were going to give "that look" from the comedy "Airplane." In fact, any minute I was expecting Leslie Nielsen to show up and say "Stop calling me Shirley." Wait a minute, I was expecting Sean Bean (The Captain) to say "Stop calling me Shirley."
Foster mentions to the captain and attendants that she was under the medication of Klonopin. Well, as the film kept dragging on, I felt like I was on Klonopin - not that I've ever taken Klono.......pin. Never mind.
It was a nice trip through the entire plane, while everyone was looking for Kyle's daughter. I loved the "pained expression" on the Sky Marshal's face when Foster was berating him. Come to think of it, seems like everyone had a pained expression when inconvenienced by Foster - in particular, the Middle Eastern guys. Goofy movie.
Never under estimate a mother Jodie Foster shows everyone that a mother will do anything to protect her child and no one will get in her way as she plows through doubters and those in authority to find her child. This movie gets your blood pumping through her struggle. Movie arrive in excellent condition.
Whole Lotta Bad Acting I usually like Jodi Foster but her performance here is over the top, and the rest of the performances are just plain bad. The story itself is formulaic. I was disappointed.
Great Thriller! A great movie. There hasn't been that many good, smart thrillers in the recent years so I was glad to have found this movie. It's sort of a chase-thriller which keeps you guessing who the culprit is or, in this case, sometimes makes you wonder if there is a culprit at all. It definitely kept me on the edge of my seat. Highly recommend it.
Flightplan Kyle Pratt and her daughter Julia board a plane in Germany to bring the body of their beloved husband/father to his final resting place in the US. After a short nap, Kyle wakes only to discover her daughter is missing from her seat. After searching on her own, she seeks help from the crew, but none of the passengers remember seeing Julia. After further inquiries, it is disclosed that Julia wasn't even listed as traveling on the flight. Everyone writes Kyle off as being in mourning, and even unstable. For just a moment Kyle starts to believe she may be losing it, but then stands firm. Julia is her daughter, and she would not make this kind of mistake regarding something so important. As Kyle begins her own search, it shocks everyone to find out that she is in fact one of the propulsion engineers of this plane and will be searching every inch to locate her daughter.
At first I couldn't believe that none of the passengers would admit to seeing Julia, but then as they are interviewed, it is amazing how many were too busy with families, business, etc. to really notice or pay attention. I expect it is pretty much how we all are. As Kyle's sanity is brought into question, we start to wonder who is right. Did we really see Julia? Jodie Foster is so strong in this movie. I like that she is proactive instead of reactive.
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