Flightplan Movie Review 2005

Kyle Pratt (Foster) and her daughter Julia (Lawston) are on the flight from Berlin to New York to bury Kyle's husband who, she's told, died after falling (or jumping?) from their apartment roof. She happens to be a propulsion engineer who knows planes inside and out. Kyle wakes from a nap to find Julia simply gone. Worse, the crew and even the passengers don't recall Julia being there, as flight and boarding lists seem to confirm that she wasn't. Tense, psychological and... implausible, but Foster makes it work. Not for the claustrophobic--most of the film's 90 minutes is spernt inside the plane.

Distribution

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-1120, Toll-free: 800-723-4763, URL: http://www.bvhe.com

Available on DVD
Running time 93 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Action-Thriller, Airborne, Kidnapped!, Mistaken Identity, Single Parents, Berlin, Germany

Screenplay

Billy Ray, Peter A. Dowling

Cast

Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan, Greta Scacchi, Judith Scott, Michael Irby, Brent Sexton, Marlene Lawston, Haley Ramm, Stephanie Faracy

Director

Robert Schwentke

Music

James Horner

Other

Robert Eber, Florian Ballhaus, Kevin Ishioka, Susan Lyall, Alexander Hammond

Producer

Brian Grazer, Buena Vista