When Jodie Foster makes a movie, attention must be paid. Even if it's a cheeseball like 2002's "Panic Room." Though it has a similar mother-protects-daughter theme, "Flightplan" is considerably better than the earlier film. A pretty darn good psychological thriller whose most preposterous moments, unfortunately, come near the end, the movie casts Foster as Kyle Pratt, a recent widow flying her husband's casket back to the States. Somewhere between Berlin and New York City, at approximately 37,000 feet, her 6-year-old daughter goes missing while Kyle is taking a much-needed nap. Read the full review
Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous new passenger plane she helped design, Kyle Pratt awakens to find her six-year-old daughter has vanished without a trace in mid-flight from Berlin to New York. Already emotionally devastated by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew and passengers while facing the possibility that she may be losing her mind.
Director: Robert Schwentke
Starring: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, Sean Bean, Haley Ramm
Run time: 93 minutes
Release date: Sept. 23, 2005
Rating: PG-13 for violence and some intense plot material.
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The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B
"Most importantly, (director Robert) Schwentke is clearly aware of his movie's greatest asset: his star."
Austin American-Statesman: 3 of 5 stars
"... a nicely tense little suspense flick that, a terribly hackneyed ending aside, is a bit classier than it needed to be."
The Palm Beach Post: B-
"Foster... lends the movie an air of intelligence, until called on to turn into a supermom action figure."
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