Flightplan (DVD)

Flight Plan is the story of a Kyle Pratt, a woman played by Jodie Foster who has just recently been widowed. She is flying back to the USA with her 6 year old daughter Julia and transporting her husband's body back. Kyle falls asleep on the flight and wakes up to find her daughter Julia is missing. At first she thinks she has just gone for a walk in the plane but as she searches and cannot find her she becomes more panicked. When I heard what the plot for the film was, I was thinking, how on earth can you lose a child on an aeroplane, where can they go? How can you make this plot into a film? But they did and it works. The plot thickens as we discover that the ...  Read the complete review

The plot of this film has many similarities of art house movie Bunny Lake Is Missing. It stars Jodie Foster as a mother Kyle Pratt, mother to six year old daughter Julia. She boards fictional airline from Berlin, destination New York. When the flight takes off Kyle goes to sleep for about three hours when she wakes up she realises Julia is missing. Where can a girl go in a plane? What happens when people think you are imagining because of recent loss of your husband, could Julia be figment of Kyle's imagination. Problem Kyle has it that no one has seen the girl boarding the flight; Initial sympathetic reaction turns to unhelpful and hostile when ...  Read the complete review

Jodie Foster plays a brilliant part in this film. After her husband dies in a somewhat suspicious accident Kyle Pratt boards a plane with her daughter to transport her husbands body home. Kyle falls asleep and when she wakes her daughter has vanished from the plane and the crew have no record of her ever being on board. Is Platt's daughter dead too or is she really missing. Twists and turns along the way in this thrilling ...  Read the complete review

(FILM ONLY REVIEW) Before I start let me confess that I love Jodie Foster (as an actress of course) so any film featuring her doesn't get a totally unbiased review from me. Throughout her career she has shown she is an adaptable and versatile actress who can convince in a variety of roles. She often excels at playing strong and yet vulnerable female characters as she has proved in such films as 'Panic Room' (2002), 'Silence of the Lamb's (1991) 'Little Man Tate' (1991) and 'The Accused'(1988). THE STORY Aviation engineer Kyle Pratt has recently lost her husband in tragic circumstances when he fell to his death from the roof of their ...  Read the complete review

>>> Movie <<< Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) is a propulsion engineer who is on the brink. Her husband David (John Benjamin Hickey) has died after a fall at their Berlin home and she is flying the casket and her daughter Laura (Marlene Lawston) back to New York. They fall to sleep at the back of the plane and after a few hours Kyle wakes up to find her daughter missing. Initially thinking that she has wandered off maybe to play with some other kids Kyle searches the plane, calmly and methodically at first but becoming more and more agitated as she realises that her daughter is nowhere to be found. She tries to enlist the help of ...  Read the complete review