| | | The Line Between This World and the Next is About to Be Crossed.
While helping a handful of plane crash survivors cope with their grief, young psychologist Claire Summers (2008 Best Actress Oscar nominee Anne Hathaway, Rachel Getting Married) begins to uncover conflicting accounts of the accident. At first, Claire believes that trauma is behind her patients' wildly different stories -- until the survivors mysteriously begin disappearing one by one. Now Eric (Patrick Wilson, Lakeview Terrace), a surviving passenger she has grown dangerously close to, may hold the key to unlocking the truth about the tragic incident in this shocking psychological thriller.
"Intelligent supernatural drama." Chicago Reader
"...[an] ambitiously conceived mystery drama with conspiracy theories, a central romance and supernatural elements." Louise Keller, Urban Cinefile
Editor's Note
GET SMART's Anne Hathaway takes a dark turn with this thriller where she stars as a therapist who begins to speak with the five survivors of a deadly crash. She soon realizes that their stories don't mesh with the airline's official statements, and events are further complicated when she falls in love with one of the survivors (Patrick Wilson). PASSENGERS also stars David Morse, Andre Braugher, Clea DuVall, and Dianne Wiest.
| Features | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Deleted Scenes | | Director & Cast Audio Commentary | | Dubbed: French | | Featurettes: Analysis Of The Plane Crash & In The Night Sky - The Making & Manifest Of Passengers | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
| Entertainment Reviews
 | Passengers - DVD Review By: Emily McDonald - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 5/13/2009 2:24 AM | | The tag line for Passengers blares "The line between this world and the next is about to be crossed," boldly over the cover of the DVD box. What could this possibly mean? What does the "next" world have to do with a bunch of passengers on a crashing plane? The cover also features white, loosely-visible people filling up the space behind a freaked out looking Patrick Wilson. Well, put the tagline and the invisi-people together and you probably have the answer to the equation that is Passengers. If you either can't figure it out or are choosing to remain belligerently naive then go ahead and either read on, or watch the film and be mildly shocked by the ending. ...read the full review |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia/tri-Star |
| Release Date: 9/22/2009 |
| Running Time: 93 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2008 | | Catalog ID: 25634 | | UPC: 00043396256347 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Variety
"A muted, eerie but ultimately soothing blend of elements from THE SIXTH SENSE and TV's LOST....PASSENGERS follows a handful of plane-crash survivors still coming to terms with their experience." 10/24/2008Jam! Movies 5 of 10
The movie, Passengers, is a psychological thriller/romance combo about the survivors of an airplane crash, with Hathaway starring as the grief counsellor who is supposed to help. Her co-stars are Patrick Wilson (Little Children), a survivor who is determined to bury his fear and other crash-related emotions; Dianne Wiest, who plays Hathaway's neighbour; and David Morse, who has a role as an airline employee...Hathaway's patients have conflicting memories of what happened on board the doomed aircraft...The problem is the general filler and tedious trailing-around-doing-nothing undertaken by the actors, who have nothing to do in the 80 minutes between the opening plane crash and the final big reveal -- the poor sods...Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson both put in reasonable enough performances, but there's not much one can do with a film this clumsy. It's amateurish in execution. It's bad storytelling...Hathaway seems to be fighting to control her own natural comedic ability in this role. Maybe everyone involved with Passengers just hopes it will vanish quickly from theatres before it sullies Hathaway's current triumph in the film Rachel Getting Married...The actress is said to be a dead cert for a best-actress Oscar nomination for her work in Rachel Getting Married, so maybe Passengers is the dream-killer for her that Norbit was for Eddie Murphy -- the film that allegedly robbed him of an Academy Award for Dreamgirls. Better if no one sees it...That's all speculation of course. What's more, it's speculation that assumes thought on the part of someone in Hollywood, so -- nah...Passengers is just a lousy movie, but you're not supposed to find that out until after you've paid for an admission ticket. That sounds closer to the truth. - Liz Braun
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