Flightplan
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| Directed by | Robert Schwentke |
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| Music by | James Horner |
| Cinematography | Florian Ballhaus |
| Edited by | Thom Noble |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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| Budget | $50 million |
| Box office | $223.4 million |
Flightplan is a 2005 German-American mystery-thriller film directed by Robert Schwentke, written by Peter A. Dowling and Billy Ray, and starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, Kate Beahan, Greta Scacchi, and Sean Bean. The film, distributed by Touchstone Pictures, was released theatrically in the United States on September 23, 2005.
The film is about Kyle Pratt (Foster), an American aircraft engineer working in Berlin, Germany with her husband and six-year-old daughter. After her husband dies, Kyle decides to return home with her daughter and the casket to the U.S. A few hours into the flight Kyle and Julia fall asleep, and Kyle wakes moments later to find that Julia is missing. She begins to panic when none of passengers remember her daughter, and when the stewards tell her that her daughter is not on the flight manifest the airplane staff begin to think Kyle is delusional. The basic premise of the plot (albeit with a very different denouement) is quite similar to a 1955 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents entitled "Into Thin Air", as well as Hitchcock's 1938 film The Lady Vanishes.
Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster), a successful American aircraft engineer employed in Berlin, Germany, is widowed with a six-year-old daughter Julia (Marlene Lawston) after her husband David falls off the roof of their building to his death. Kyle decides to bury him in their hometown back in the U.S., on Long Island, New York. They fly aboard an Aalto Airlines Elgin 474, a huge passenger aircraft that Kyle helped design the engines for. A few hours into the flight, Kyle and Julia fall asleep, and Kyle wakes moments later to find that Julia is missing. At first calm, she begins to panic when none of the passengers or flight attendants claim to have seen her. One of the flight attendants, Stephanie (Kate Beahan), calls the Berlin airport that they departed from and, shockingly, she claims that the gate attendant told her they have no record of Julia boarding the flight. In addition, the passenger manifest registers Julia's seat as unoccupied, Kyle cannot find Julia's boarding pass, and when she goes back to her seat to look for it in the overhead bin, she finds that Julia's backpack has also disappeared. Fearing somebody has her, Kyle forces Captain Marcus Rich (Sean Bean) to have the flight attendants conduct a thorough search of the plane while all of the passengers are told to remain in their seats and not to get up for any reason, including using the plane's onboard bathrooms.
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