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Flightplan (2005)

PG-13   |    |  Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet, the child vanishes, and nobody will admit she was ever on the plane.

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  • Jodie Foster and Marlene Lawston in Flightplan (2005)
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Awards

2 wins & 6 nominations.

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15 January 2006 | iamsam103
6
| Panic Room but in the sky.
First off, I loved "Panic Room" and Jodie Foster's performance in it. When I first saw the looks of this film, I was very intrigued and thought it was going to be a "The Forgotten 2"....i was very wrong.

What starts off is with Jodie Foster playing a mourning mother after the death of her husband. Her and her daughter catch a flight to go stay with Foster's grandparents, however, after Jodie's character falls asleep, the daughter is gone....and to make matters worst, she is told that she never existed...

Sounds like a good premise eh? Well that's what infused me to go and see it. It starts off well but once the daughter goes missing, it went downhill. Jodie's performance throughout is good, not Oscar worthy but it is one of the highlights of the film (as well as the ever-cool Sean Bean.) Unfortunately I can't go into great depth of anything else of the story because of spoilers, but I will say that the ending plot is horrible, totally impossible and so therefore ruins the impact of the film and its good beginning.

There are also a lot of other things that annoy me about the film, to cut a long list short here are some examples: - a brilliant, new state of the art plane...and there's hardly anyone on board.

  • Foster's character, although confused and frustrated does get annoying after a bit, and seeing as w're meant to identify and sympathise with her, is not a good thing.


  • The overall twist / ending plot is ridiculous, as I stated before.


My vote is 6/10....go see the film for the enjoyment of Jodie Foster and some thrills. however, do not expect a masterpiece..because this is FAR from great.

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Trivia

Portia de Rossi, Christina Ricci, and Josie Davis were each offered the role of Kyle Pratt but turned it down.

Quotes

Mortuary Director: Would you like a moment of privacy before the casket is sealed?
Kyle: Okay.

Goofs

The production designers did a rather poor job with the design of the fictional airplane. Besides the large amounts of unproductive empty space already noted, and the mismatch between number of engines and cockpit instrumentation, there are several other glaring mistakes. First, the aircraft fuselage structure is depicted as a tubular metallic design like buildings on the ground, when in fact all modern commercial aircraft use monocoque structure where the skin is the main strength element. Second, the heroine messed with an open panel consisting of many switchboard-like cables terminated with phone jacks like an old telephone system; no aircraft would use anything like this in the general or specific sense. Third, cabin lighting is shown being on the wall shining into passengers' eyes, instead of overhead.

Crazy Credits

Some of the opening credits are reflected on the side of a subway train as if they are actually present in the scene. Other credits interact with the background in many other ways, for example by being obscured by foreground objects or moving in perspective to match a closing door.

Soundtracks

Silent Poet
Written & Performed by Rupert Pope (as Ru Pope)
Courtesy of Extreme Production Music USA

Storyline

Plot Summary

Synopsis (WARNING: Spoilers)

Genres

Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Details

Release Date:

23 September 2005

Language

English, French, German, Arabic, Italian, Japanese

Country of Origin

USA

Filming Locations

Berlin, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

$55,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$24,629,938 25 September 2005

Gross USA:

$89,707,299

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$223,387,299

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