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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Salesrank: 31528
Released: January 24, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
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
Description of Flightplan (Full Screen Edition):
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
Flightplan (Full Screen Edition) Reviews:
Too many plot holes 
2008-07-27 - 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 goes missing on the plane flight whilst Jodie Foster is sleeping, but when Foster reports her daughter as missing, there is no record of her ever being on the plane, throwing doubts on Foster's sanity. Foster is compelling as the grieving mother desperately trying to find her daughter aboard the plane and Sean Bean also puts in a fine performance as the plane's captain. However although this film is enjoyable, there are just too many plot holes for it to be considered excellent, which is a shame, as it could have been.
IT'S ONLY ME, BUT: 
2008-06-01 - 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
Flight Plan 
2008-05-23 - This movie kept my attention throughout. I like just about anything Jodie Foster is in. Very good movie.
Great movie, excellent audio and video
2008-01-27 - As usual, Jodie Foster gives a fantastic performance. The audio is fantastic, and the video is great as well. This is one of my favorite films on Blu-Ray. It will keep you guessing for most of the film.
Enjoy!
Flight Plan DVD
2008-01-19 - This is a great movie, if you like suspense with a slight twist at the end. Jodie Foster is one of our family's favorite actresses, so perhaps we are prejudiced!
You will enjoy this movie!
