| | | A Film By Wes Craven
Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Aspect Ratio 1.33:1, Dolby Digital (5.1); Dolby Digital Stereo; Dolby Surround Sound, English, Spanish French Subtitled
Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) hates to fly, but the terror that awaits her on the night flight to Miami has nothing to do with a fear of flying.Moments after takeoff, Lisa's seatmate, Jackson (Cillian Murphy), menacingly reveals the real reason he's on board: He is an operative in a plot to kill the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security... and Lisa is the key to its success. If she refuses to cooperate, her own father will be killed by an assassin awaiting a call from Jackson. Trapped within the confines of the jet at 30,000 feet, Lisa has nowhere to run and no way to summon help without endangering her father, her fellow passengers and her own life. As the miles tick by, Lisa knows she is running out of time as she desperately looks for a way to thwart her ruthless captor and stop a terrible murder.
"A Killer of a Thriller." Bill Diehl, ABC Radio
"A Taut, Tense, White-Knuckle Ride From The Master - Wes Craven." Bill Bregoli, WESTWOOD ONE
"Red Eye is a first-rate, edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller graranteed to keep your eyes wide open." Bill Handelsman, KPFK Radio
"The gripping, seat-clutching suspense in this baby will pin you to your seat." Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Editor's Note
What at first seems like a romantic connection between two attractive strangers (Cillian Murphy and Rachel McAdams) who meet on a red-eye flight to Miami turns dark and deadly in this Wes Craven-directed suspense thriller.
| Features | The Making of Red Eye | | Wes Craven: A New Kind of Thriller Featurette | | Gag Reel | | Feature Commentary by Director Wes Craven, Producer Marianne Maddalena and Editor Patrick Lussier | | Previews | | Audio: English, French Dolby Digital (5.1); Dolby Digital Surround, English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo | | Fullscreen Presentation |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Dreamworks SKG TV |
| Release Date: 5/6/2008 |
| Running Time: 86 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2005 | | Catalog ID: 94473 | | UPC: 00678149447323 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Standard 1.33:1 [4:3] |
| Cast & Crew | Brian Cox | | Cillian Murphy | | Jayma Mays | | Rachel McAdams | | Bruce Alan Miller - Production Designer | | Carl Ellsworth - Screenplay | | Carl Ellsworth, et. al. - Story By | | Chris Bender, et. al. - Producer | | Jeanne Algood, et. al. - Executive Producer | | Marco Beltrami - Original Music By | | Robert D. Yeoman - Cinematographer | | Stuart Levy, et. al. - Editor | | Wes Craven - Director |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"[An] effective button pusher of a fright film..." 08/26/2005 p.41-42James Berardinelli's ReelViews 6 of 10
Red Eye belongs to the genre in which a director attempts to sustain a heightened level of suspense for long enough that the audience will not notice how incredibly stupid the screenplay is. Alfred Hitchcock was a master at this--although some of the scripts he worked with were masterpieces, one could argue that his true skill as a filmmaker was evident with those that weren't. More recently, Phone Booth and Cellular achieved success by doing as much as possible with a thin and implausible premise. Wes Craven's Red Eye is more of a mixed bag. There are stretches during the course of this 85-minute long motion picture when the director elevates the tension to an acceptable plateau, but there are also occasions when too much of the narrative seeps through and we see the seams in the storytelling. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
Wes Craven's Red Eye is movie that wants to be a good thriller, and moves competently, even relentlessly, toward that goal. It's helped enormously by Rachel McAdams, whose performance is convincing because she keeps it at ground level; thrillers are invitations to overact, but she remains plausible even when the action ratchets up around her. When she's stalking a terrorist with a hockey stick, she seems like a real woman stalking a real terrorist with a real hockey stick. It's not as easy as it sounds. - Roger Ebert
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