Flightplan

2005

98 Min

Currently 2.3/5 Stars.
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DIR Robert Schwentke

CAST Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan, Michael Irby, Assaf Cohen, Erika Christensen, Shane Edelman, Mary Gallagher, Haley Ramm, Forrest Landis, Marlene Lawston

Synopsis

Still reeling from her husband’s unexpected death, Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is on a plane heading from Berlin to New York when her daughter vanishes. But the captain (Sean Bean) and the air marshal (Peter Sarsgaard) begin to doubt that the child was ever on board. With no support from the plane’s staff, Kyle can only rely on herself to find her little girl. But their growing suspicions about her sanity prove problematic.

Director

Robert Schwentke

Born in Stuttgart, Germany, Robert Schwentke acquired a degree in Philosophy at the Karls-University in Tuebingen before moving to the United States to study at Columbia College and later at the American Film Institute.

He wrote and directed for German TV before writing and directing his first feature film, Tattoo (2002), which won a Special Mention at Fantasporto as well as Special Mention at the Swedish Fantastic Film Festival.

His second film, a romantic comedy entitled Eierdiebe (2003), won the Audience Award at the Biberach Film Festival. He then directed Jodie Foster in Flightplan (2003), a thriller about a woman whose daughter goes missing on an airplane in flight, followed by The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009), in which Eric Bana starred as a man who can’t control his passages through time. —tribute.ca