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Lynn Salvatori,
Tony Donno,
Kim Robert Koscki,
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Robert Schwentke,
Robert Schwentke
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: Touchstone
: Foreign, Suspense/Thriller
: 98 min.
: English, Spanish, French
: Spanish, French
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A woman is forced to prove her own sanity to save the life of her daughter in this taut thriller. Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is a successful aircraft designer who has recently been dealing with the traumatic death of her husband. After traveling to Berlin on business with her six-year-old daughter, Julia (Marlene Lawston), Kyle falls asleep on their flight back to New York, only to discover that her daughter has gone missing. While not knowing where Julia has gone is troubling enough, even more disturbing is the insistence by sky marshal Gene Carson (Peter Sarsgaard) and Captain Rich (Sean Bean) that no records indicate that the child ever boarded the jet. As Kyle becomes increasingly desperate to find her daughter, she must prove to the men in charge that her daughter did in fact board the plane with her, and that this turn of events is not a product of her imagination. But if Julia has gone missing, who has taken her and why? Also starring Erika Christensen and Kate Beahan, Flightplan was the first English-language feature from German director Robert Schwentke. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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| Take the "Red Eye" Instead
by talltale
January 16, 2006 - 8:27 PM PST
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3 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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Faintly, rather than hugely, ludicrous and providing Jodie Foster with yet another "save-your-child!" thriller a la "Panic Room," FLIGHTPLAN does the trick in its lumbering manner. It will keep you guessing long enough to involve you, after which it plays out mostly by-the-numbers. Warning: for those of you who have only seen four or five movies in your entire lifetime, there may be a spoiler in the next paragraph.
The final moments are so dimwittedly self-congratulatory in making sure that the Foster character is heralded as heroine that it practically defeats the whole point of the film--which is to make sure the little girl is OK. Still, the script is bearable, the direction slow but nicely geared to the in-plane atmosphere, and the cast is all pro--from Sarsgaard and Bean to Erika Christensen and Kate Beahan. So you might as well relax and let the lunacy carry you away. Comparisons to "Red Eye," however (and there are many), do "Flightplan" no favors. |
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