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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Digital (5.1); DTS 5.1; Dolby Surround Sound, Featurette, Audio Commentary, Spanish, French Subtitled
Academy Award winner Jodie Foster (Best Actress, The Silence Of The Lambs, 1991) gives an outstanding performance in the heart-pumping action thriller Flightplan. Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's (Foster) 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter. From the producer of Apollo 13 and A Beautiful Mind, Flightplan is an intense, suspense-filled thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat the entire flight.
"An amped-up psychological thriller." Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times
"Suspenseful and Gripping." Pete Hammond, Maxim
"Jodie Foster takes Flightplan into the upper reaches of suspense." Chris Kaltenbach, The Baltimore Sun
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 | The In-Flight Movie - The Making Of Flightplan
| | Filmmaker Audio Commentary | | Subtitles: Spanish, French
| | Cabin Pressure: Designing the Aalto E-474 Featurette | | Audio: English Dolby Digital (5.1); Dolby Surround Sound | | Widescreen Presentation |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Flightplan - DVD By: Matt Paprocki - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 1/8/2007 3:52 PM | | Flightplan does nearly everything right. It's intense, gripping, well acted, finely directed, and provides a great mystery right up until the closing moments. What it doesn't have is a logical script, one without at least 15 movie-destroying lapses in common sense that make the entire piece collapse onto itself so close to a perfect finish....read the full review |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista Home Video |
| Release Date: 8/22/2006 |
| Running Time: 98 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2005 | | Catalog ID: 3896003 | | UPC: 00786936270532 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | James Berardinelli's ReelViews 5 of 10
Flightplan is the latest motion picture to take an intriguing premise and flush it into the septic tank. Despite the participation of selective, talented actress Jodie Foster and a screenplay that borrows heavily from The Lady Vanishes, Flightplan can't avoid falling apart during its final half-hour. Instead of an intelligent, inventive finale, we are stuck with the same approach employed by every half-baked thriller. The absurd conclusion would be laughable if it wasn't such a disappointment. And anyone mentioning the words "surprise twist" in association with this film is betraying an ignorance of the conventions of the genre. - James Berardinelli
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. After the movie is over and you are on your way home, some questions may occur to you, but the film proceeds with implacable logic after establishing that the little girl does not seem to be on board. - Roger Ebert
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