Jodie Foster doesn't act nearly as much as you'd imagine she could these days, so it's hard not to read a bit into the few parts she does accept. After her most recent starring turn in "Panic Room" and numerous related roles, she's starting to look like the self-crowned queen of the child-in-danger movie. Foster is awfully convincing as the mother who will do anything to protect a child, projecting a naked, desperate determination. And "Flightplan" lets her take this mode in a new direction: As the trailers reveal, there comes a point in the tale where we learn that Foster might be trying to rescue a daughter who no longer exists. 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."
