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List Price: $19.94 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 11021
Released: May 12, 2009 |
| Our Price: $4.24 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
While helping a handful of plane crash survivors cope with their grief, young psychologist Claire Summers (2008 Best Actress, Oscar® nominee Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married) begins to uncover conflicting accounts of the accident. At first, Claire believes that trauma is behind her patients' wildly different stories - until the survivors mysteriously begin disappearing one by one. Now Eric (Patrick Wilson, Lakeview Terrace), a surviving passenger she has grown dangerously close to, may hold the key to unlocking the truth about the tragic incident in this shocking psychological thriller.
Description of Passengers:
Academy Award nominee Anne Hathaway leads an impressive cast in this supernatural-tinged thriller from director Rodrigo Garcia (Things You Can Tell By Just Looking at Her). Hathaway is typically fine as a novice therapist assigned to the survivors of a horrific plane crash; all are traumatized save one (Patrick Wilson, Watchmen), who exudes a newfound joie de vivre as well as a serious yen for Hathaway. As the mismatched pair grows closer, the survivors begin to disappear, spurring Hathaway into an investigation into what exactly transpired during the doomed flight. Though the two leads are a photogenic pair, they’re continually underserved by the script, which serves up an alarming array of red herrings and false steps; Garcia does his best to impart the same sort of layered, multi-character structure to Passengers he brought to his arthouse dramas like Nine Lives, but the material is too thin and derivative to afford him much traction. The terrific supporting cast, which includes Andre Braugher, Dianne Wiest, Clea Duvall, David Morse, and, appropriately enough, William B. Davis--The X-Files’ Cancer Man--is also left stranded by the script. --Paul Gaita
Passengers Reviews:
Ripoff-y, not very original or good 
2009-10-28 - It's a ripoff-y tearjerker with bad acting by Anne Hathaway and Dianne Wiest, tho the other actors did well with a limited script. It's not at all what it seems at first, a conspiracy theory movie -- not that that would have been an improvement, it's just that this particular paranormal theme is done, and it has the same ending twist *******************SPOILER AHEAD **************************** as the Sixth Sense, without the better acting that makes that movie watchable. Hathaway here plays an annoying character, yes, but also plays her badly, imo, making it doubly hard to watch. I know the ending was supposed to be heartwarming, but it just didn't convince me.
Very Solid, Paranormally Oriented Movie 
2009-10-18 - If you liked SIXTH SENSE, you should like this film. Although it doesn't have quite the dramatic punch of that film, it certainly has punch enough over the course of it. The plot line is that there is a plane crash. There are only a handful of survivors and psychologist Anne Hathaway is called in to do group therapy with that small group. However, strange things begin to happen to the survivors and Hathaway becomes very suspicious. She is sure that the airline is trying to conceal some pertinent facts from her and everyone else. She delves further into this while getting closer and closer to one of the male patients in her small group. Anne Hathaway is a very lovely and talented actress.
a la The Others but without the intrigue 
2009-10-13 - This is a thriller that is supposed to have twists ad turns and keep the viewer guessing, but in the first 45 minutes of the movie I just couldn't bring myself to care about the characters. The only reason I kept watching the film is because I have tremendous respect for the leads - Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson. I didn't particularly care for Hathaway's character's fate, but after the first set up of the movie, I realized the feel of the film that was very reminiscent of The Others. What intrigued me the most about this movie, however, was the idea of purgatory and how one must come into terms with their own mortality and death.
A True Flame-Out!
2009-10-13 - I had higher hopes for this after reading some of the reviews here on Amazon. I've never been that impressed with Annes's acting ability since I'm not a woman and since she mostly makes "chick flicks". So, I found the plot to be slooow moving and a little stiff. The acting was well, slightly morbid...pun, yes indeed!
Anyway, three stars for the ending which was a surprise. But just so you know, this is fiction and has nothing to do with reality.
"...I Know You From Somewhere..." 
2009-10-08 - I've watched so many films this year - and the really good ones you can count on two hands - "Passengers" is one of them.
At first it's a little frustrating as Anne Hathaway struggles with her therapist assignment - five men and women who've survived a crash-landed jet on American soil. They may or may not have acquired powers because of the crash - and people and odd things appear around them? Or perhaps the airline is being less than truthful about its planes and their maintenance records when she confronts them (David Morse)? Why is Patrick Wilson (one of the bloodied survivors who has recovered remarkably quickly) so determined to woe and date Anne? And why do others around Anne now want all manner of things from her - her boss wants a speedy report put in (Andre Braugher) - the suddenly way too friendly neighbor (Dianne Wiest)?
To say too much is to give too much away, and I wouldn't want to spoil it - suffice to say - like many other reviewers, I was strangely moved by this film.
"Passengers" is directed by Rodrigo Garcia - the same man who brought us the brilliant Gabriel Byrne psychiatrist drama "In Treatment".
Hire this movie and bear with it - it's a gem in a sea of mediocrity.
