Flightplan (Full Screen Edition) | 
| Director: Robert Schwentke
Actors: Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Sean Bean, Kate Beahan, Michael Irby
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Category: DVD
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Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 34984
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: Arabic (Original Language), English (Original Language), French (Original Language), German (Original Language), Italian (Original Language), Japanese (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 98 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 786936270525
UPC: 786936270525
EAN: 0786936270525
ASIN: B000BYY11O
Theatrical Release Date: September 23, 2005
Release Date: January 24, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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
Product Description
WHILE KYLE PRATT AND HER DAUGHTER JULIA ARE TRAVELING ABOARD A FLIGHT FROM BERLIN TO NEW YORK, 6-YEAR OLD JULIA MYSERIOUSLY VANISHES. WHEN KYLE DISCOVERS THAT NONE OF THE CREW EVEN REMEMBERS HER DAUGHTER BEING ON THE PLANE, SHE MUST RELY ENTIRELY ON HERSELF TO FIND HER.
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 Why blu-ray ? April 15, 2009
Gilberto Dotti Cesa (Flores da Cunha, RS Brasil)
A good film, but the quality of the image in the blu-ray does not justify to rent or buy it if you have seen it on DVD. Sorry my english !
Amber Alert in the sky October 29, 2008
D. Roberts (Battle Creek, Michigan United States)
This movie is something like a cross between The Twilight Zone & Alfred Hitchcock presents, with some 9/11 themes thrown in just for fun. There is a missing little girl on a huge double-decker passenger jet flying across the Atlantic. Or is there a missing girl? Therein lies the crux of the storyline.
The DVD contains strong performances by Jodi Foster and Sean Bean. Foster is always a great actress, and the movie hinges on whether we can relate to her angst as a mother of a missing child. If we can't identify w/her, this movie is toast. Thankfully, as always, Foster comes through and we're able to feel her frustration as a person who is treated like some sort of mad woman when all she wants is to keep her daughter safe.
Bean is very good as the kind & caring captain who is willing to give people the benefit-of-the-doubt. He will do anything in his power to help a child in danger, but he is unsure whether such a child is actually on board his aircraft.
While some of the components of this film are a bit contrived (if not outright far-fetched?), it still remains right on the outer cusp of believability. There are some nice plot-twists, and it adds to the depth of the plot that Foster's character is an engineer who actually helped design the plane.
If you're in the mood for a suspenseful thriller, this is a good one to pick up. While it does not seem like it early on, everything will make sense eventually.
Flightplan Full Screen Edition Review October 25, 2008
Valerie Garner
A suspense thriller about a grieving widow transporting her husband's body on a transatlantic flight with her 6 year old daughter in tow. Jodie Foster does a great job in this movie and is very convincing in her own, doubting her own sanity at times due to circumstances and what others consistently were telling her. It kept you guessing and was not a predictable plot. I'm not a big action fan, but I did like this one. It had a story to it, not just the same old crime/vengence theme.
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Too many plot holes July 27, 2008
Irikefe Okonedo (London, England)
Taut thriller in which Jodie Foster plays a grieving widow flying back to New York from Berlin with her six year old daughter following the death of her husband in a tragic accident. Foster's daughter mysteriously goes missing on the plane flight whilst Jodie Foster is sleeping, but when Foster reports her daughter as missing, there is no record of her ever being on the plane, throwing doubts on Foster's sanity. Foster is compelling as the grieving mother desperately trying to find her daughter aboard the plane and Sean Bean also puts in a fine performance as the plane's captain. However although this film is enjoyable, there are just too many plot holes for it to be considered excellent, which is a shame, as it could have been.
 IT'S ONLY ME, BUT: June 1, 2008
Joan M. Mckeown (ontario, canada)
JODY FOSTER IS GREAT AS USUAL. JODYS CHARACTER DESIGNED THE PLANE. oNE A FLIGHT HER CHILD GOES MISSING AND NO ONE SEEMS TO HAVE SEEN HER. jODY HAS TO FIND HER AND DEAL WITH TERRORISTS ON HER OWN. JM
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