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An airplane engineer and her daughter fly home to New York from Germany following the death of her husband. During the flight, the woman's child goes missing and no one, including the flight's passenger manifest, can verify that the little girl was ever on the plane.System Requirements:Run Time: 93 minsFormat: BLU-RAY DISC
"...a taut thriller, a Hitchcockian exercise in suspense..." Chris Kaltenbach, Baltimore Sun
"A tense, concise and elegantly shot film." Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
"...deliciously exciting..." William Arnold, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Editor's Note
After 2002's PANIC ROOM, Jodie Foster took a three year break before deciding to take another leading role in a major motion picture. Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood, but Foster is one of the few stars who can afford to take such a lengthy hiatus from the industry and still command major roles on her return. Robert Schwentke's FLIGHTPLAN is the movie Foster chose as her comeback vehicle; playing the recently widowed Kyle Pratt, she sticks close to PANIC ROOM territory, delving further into fear and isolation as her character boards an airplane to escort her dead husband's body from Berlin to New York. Kyle brings her young daughter Julia (Marlene Lawston) on the plane with her, and they fly on a craft that was designed by the grieving widow during her tragic tenure in Berlin. But after a short in-flight nap, Kyle awakes to find Julia has disappeared. Her frantic search leads nowhere, and it seems no one on the plane can remember Kyle's daughter boarding the plane. An air marshal named Carson (Peter Sarsgaard) and the pilot of the plane, Captain Rich (Sean Bean), methodically ask Kyle some questions to determine where Julia could be, but she fails to produce any concrete evidence, not even a boarding pass. At this point, Kyle begins to doubt her own sanity, and Schwentke steers the movie through some surprising plot twists as his lead character teeters on the brink of madness. The second half of the movie drops the Hitchcockian intrigue (FLIGHTPLAN owes a sizeable debt to Hitchcock's 1938 thriller THE LADY VANISHES) and settles into a more straightforward action film, but Foster shines throughout. Credit is also due to cinematographer Florian Ballhaus, who unnervingly conjures up a palpable feeling of claustrophobia as the high-tech airplane endures a rocky journey through the skies.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound, DTS 5.1 Surround Sound | | Featurettes: Cabin Pressure - Designing The Aalto E-474 & The In-Flight Movie - The Making Of Flightplan | | Film Maker Audio Commentary | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture And Sound |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 12/19/2006 |
| Running Time: 98 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2005 | | Catalog ID: 5346503 | | UPC: 00786936724950 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 2.35:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety 7 of 10
The care and craft exhibited by director Robert Schwentke in Flightplan is largely undone by a script that self-destructs in the third act of an otherwise well-made thriller toplining Jodie Foster as a passenger on a transatlantic flight who's lost track of her young daughter. While Buena Vista is hoping the pic can achieve the fine biz done by Foster's previous mom-and-kid thriller, Panic Room, the distrib may have to settle for the more middling returns garnered by recent airline-hostage pic Red Eye. - Robert Koehler
Chicago Sun-Times 9 of 10
How can a little girl simply disappear from an airplane at 37,000 feet? By asking this question and not cheating on the answer, "Flightplan" delivers a frightening thriller with an airtight plot. It's like a classic Locked Room Murder, in which the killer could not possibly enter or leave, but the victim is nevertheless dead. Such mysteries always have solutions, and so does "Flightplan," but not one you will easily anticipate...The movie's excellence comes from Foster's performance as a resourceful and brave woman; from Bean, Sarsgaard and the members of the cabin crew, all with varying degrees of doubt; from the screenplay by Peter A. Dowling and Billy Ray; and from the direction by Robert Schwentke, a German whose first two films were not much seen in North America. This one will be. - Roger Ebert
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