Product Description

Academy Award(R) 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17649 in DVD
• Brand: BUENA VISTA HOME VIDEO
• Released on: 2006-01-24
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese
• Subtitled in: Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 98 minutes

Amazon.com
Like a lot of stylishly persuasive thrillers, Flightplan is more fun to watch than it is to think about. There's much to admire in this hermetically sealed mystery, in which a propulsion engineer and grieving widow (Jodie Foster) takes her 6-year-old daughter (and a coffin containing her husband's body) on a transatlantic flight aboard a brand-new jumbo jet she helped design, and faces a mother's worst nightmare when her daughter (Marlene Lawston) goes missing. But how can that be? Is she delusional? Are the flight crew, the captain (Sean Bean) and a seemingly sympathetic sky marshal (Peter Sarsgaard) playing out some kind of conspiratorial abduction? In making his first English-language feature, German director Robert Schwentke milks the mother's dilemma for all it's worth, and Foster's intense yet subtly nuanced performance (which builds on a fair amount of post-9/11 paranoia) encompasses all the shifting emotions required to grab and hold your attention. Alas, this upgraded riff on Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (not to mention Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake is Missing) is ultimately too preposterous to hold itself together. Flightplan gives us a dazzling tour of the jumbo jet's high-tech innards, and its suspense is intelligently maintained all the way through to a cathartic conclusion, but the plot-heavy mechanics break down under scrutiny. Your best bet is to fasten your seatbelt and enjoy the thrills on a purely emotional level--a strategy that worked equally well with Panic Room, Foster's previous thriller about a mother and daughter in peril. --Jeff Shannon

PAUL CLINTON, CNN
"A heart-stopping thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat."

BILL DIEHL, ABC RADIO NETWORK
"Buckle up for a terrifying white knuckle flight that sizzles with suspense."

Customer Reviews

Jodie Foster is very good.
Many aspects of this movie work well. Jodie Foster raises this movie above the conventional thriller. The setting using a jumbo jet works. You get to see parts of the jet, for example, the cargo bay that a typical passenger never get to see. The pacing is good. The characters themselves are well written and believable. They make understandable decisions. One never has to ask why a character would do such a stupid thing.

It is with the plot that I have the most trouble. It is fairly convoluted. It does answer the questions the veiwers have when they watch the movie. Why would anyone do this to Jody Foster's character? Why would they kidnap the daughter? Is the husband's death related in anyway? If there is a conspiracy, how big is it?

However, there were quite a few holes in the plot that left me with a bad taste in my mouth after the movie. The movie just did't click for me at the end.

Were You Really There
Were you really there, when this once in every five years thriller hit the movies? This is a great movie. Jodie Foster is a natural. I think having children of her own, in real life, helped her delve deep within for this role. She is clearly one of the best,in a class with Jack Nicholson, Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington and Meryl Streep.

This movie stretched emotions, reality and had me on the edge of my seat. I began to believe that Foster's daughter really didn't exist. There was never a boring moment. Throwing in the "political correct" message about the Arabs on the plane was handled perfectly in the movie, while not being overemphasized or loudly pointed out.

At a time whent the word "great" is overused, it would not be to describe this gem.

Flight Plan - Gotta See - Keep watching
My roommate and I are Jodi Foster fans. We thought we were going to be disappointed at first, but her dynamic performance kept us fascinated and we were not disappointed. We would highly recommend this movie to all our friends. Makes you believe in a persons sense of right. No disappointments here.