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List Price: $14.99 | | Label: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Salesrank: 8239
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 (Widescreen 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 (Widescreen Edition) Reviews:
Fakes On A Plane... 
2008-09-24 - I've loved Jodie Foster ever since being mesmerized by her in THE LITTLE GIRL WHO LIVES DOWN THE LANE. SILENCE OF THE LAMBS was the dark icing on the cake. Now, Ms. Foster has become a suspense / thriller / action hero. PANIC ROOM was great and FLIGHTPLAN is almost as good. Here we get a mother named Kyle Pratt (Foster), trapped on a plane, unable to find her 6yo daughter. Unfortunately, no one believes her, and there's no record of her daughter ever being on the plane! Is she nuts, or is there some diabolical conspiracy afoot? The tension builds nicely, while we wonder what is going on. Kyle goes from concerned parent to nearly berserk passenger to unstoppable super-mum on the loose! Definitely a flight worth taking...
A serious "AIRPLANE?" 
2008-08-23 - 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
2008-05-16 - 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
2008-04-20 - 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! 
2008-04-05 - 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.
