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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: FOSTER,JODIE EAN: 0786936270525 Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone Region Code: 1 Release Date: January 24, 2006 Running Time: 98 minutes Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone Theatrical Release Date: September 23, 2005 Sales Rank: 11471 MPN: DISD38959D
Description: 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.
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Amber Alert in the sky
This movie is something like a cross between The Twilight Zone & Alfred Hitchcock presents, with some 9/11 themes thrown in just for fun. There is a missing little girl on a huge double-decker passenger ... Read More
Rating: - Flightplan Full Screen Edition Review
A suspense thriller about a grieving widow transporting her husband's body on a transatlantic flight with her 6 year old daughter in tow. Jodie Foster does a great job in this movie and is very convincing in ... Read More
Rating: - Too many plot holes
Taut thriller in which Jodie Foster plays a grieving widow flying back to New York from Berlin with her six year old daughter following the death of her husband in a tragic accident. Foster's daughter mysteriously ... Read More
Rating: - IT'S ONLY ME, BUT:
JODY FOSTER IS GREAT AS USUAL. JODYS CHARACTER DESIGNED THE PLANE. oNE A FLIGHT HER CHILD GOES MISSING AND NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE SEEN HER. jODY HAS TO FIND HER AND DEAL WITH TERRORISTS ON HER OWN. JM
Rating: - Flight Plan
This movie kept my attention throughout. I like just about anything Jodie Foster is in. Very good movie.
- Too many plot holes
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