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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Robert Schwentke
Writers (WGA):
Peter A. Dowling (written by) and
Billy Ray (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
23 September 2005 (USA) more
Tagline:
If Someone Took Everything You Live For... How Far Would You Go To Get It Back?
Plot:
A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 3 nominations more
User Comments:
A mediocre time at the movies more
US TV Schedule:
Fri. July 178:00 AMFX   

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Additional Details

Also Known As:
Plan de vuelo (Argentina) (Venezuela) [es]
Flight plan (France) [fr]
Flightplan (Finland) [fi]
Flightplan - Mistero in volo (Italy) [it]
Flightplan - Ohne jede Spur (Germany) [de]
Ha-Tissa (Israel: Hebrew title) [iw]
High jinx at thirty thousand feet (Hong Kong: Cantonese title) (literal English title) [zh]
Plan de vol (Canada: French title) [fr]
Plan de vuelo: Desaparecida (Spain) [es]
Plan leta (Serbia) [sr]
Plano de Vôo (Brazil) [pt]
Red letenja (Croatia) [hr]
Shedio ptisis (Greece) [el]
Uçus plani (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for violence and some intense plot material.
Runtime:
98 min
Country:
USA
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS
Filming Locations:
Berlin, Germany more

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Trivia:
Jodie Foster's role was originally written for Sean Penn. The original character's name of "Kyle" was even kept. Coincedently, Penn's role in The Game (1997) was originally intended for Jodie Foster. more
Goofs:
Audio/visual unsynchronized: When the French person on the screen is finished speaking, she remains there even though another language is playing. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Mortuary Director: [in German, subtitled] Would you like a moment of privacy before the casket is sealed?
Kyle: [hesitantly] Okay.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in In-Flight Movie: The Making of 'Flightplan' (2006) (V) more
Soundtrack:
Silent Poet more

FAQ

How did they get Julia away without anyone seeing her?
Did Kyle's husband commit suicide or was he murdered?
A Note Regarding Spoilers
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142 out of 223 people found the following comment useful:-
A mediocre time at the movies, 10 October 2005
4/10
Author: morgan.fey from San Francisco

The number one rule in making a thriller is, if you're ripping off Hitchcock, make sure you do it right! The movie's plot is very simply Hitchcockian -- a woman, Jodie Foster, loses her little girl aboard an international flight several thousands of feet in the air, and nobody on board remembers seeing the little girl at all, much less her disappearance. The movie's full of simple plot elements: a desperate mother, the claustrophobic atmosphere of the plane and the helpless skepticism of the airline personnel. The problem is the plot ultimately makes no internal sense, and the underlying emotional issues, while beautifully played by the talented Ms. Foster, are idiotic as well. All movies like this are manipulative by nature, but the really good ones hide the strings (Hitchcock was a Master of this art) while the bad ones, like Flightplan, display their flaws so obviously you find yourself sitting in the theater snorting at the improbability of what's happening. The big twist that's supposed to shock doesn't make sense, supposedly intelligent characters act extremely stupidly and the emotional manipulation is ham-handed and ineffective.

So -- what did this movie do right? The performances are uniformly decent, though not in themselves interesting enough to save the movie. And the director keeps the movie from utter pointlessness by keeping the movie visually interesting. The movie's color palette is blue and grays, and the airplane is full of sleek curves and surfaces. The camera does all sorts of tricks, like filming a conversation from the outside of the windows, but which ultimately does nothing for the story or the movie overall.

I didn't hate this movie, mostly I was dismissive of it. Nothing engaged me, or interested me, and the ending made me roll my eyes. It's true: a bad script kills a film every time.

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