Jodie foster takes her young daughter with her on a long flight in a very large airplane. Dec 04, 2014 academy awardr winner jodie foster gives an outstanding performance in the heartpumping action thriller flightplan. Flightplan 2005 jodie foster, peter sarsgaard, sean bean movies thanks for watching. Jodie foster panic room plays kyle pratt, an airplane designer whose husband apparently fell off their roof and died recently. The movie stars jodie foster in a story that bears similarities to her panic. Flightplan is an intense, suspensefilled thriller that will keep you on the edge of your seat the entire flight. Released september 23rd, 2005, flightplan stars jodie foster, peter sarsgaard, erika christensen, sean bean the pg movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 38 min, and received a score of 53 out of. Alicia christian jodie foster born november 19, 1962 is an american actress, film director and producer foster began acting in commercials at three years old, 1 and her first significant role came in the 1976 film taxi driver as the preteen prostitute, iris, for which she received a nomination for the academy award for best supporting actress. Jan 23, 2012 academy awardr winner jodie foster gives an outstanding performance in the heartpumping action thriller flightplan. In 1975 jodie was offered the role of prostitute iris steensma in the movie taxi driver 1976. The movie flightplan ending spoiler anandtech forums. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from berlin to america.
Such mysteries always have solutions, and so does flightplan, but. Kyle pratt jodie foster is a propulsion engineer based in berlin, germany. Kyle pratt jodie foster is a successful aircraft designer who has recently been dealing with the traumatic death of her husband. Flightplan derives its plot from a hitchcock standpoint. Also since they were living abroad, she accompanied his body back to the u.
Dowling and billy ray, and starring jodie foster, peter sarsgaard, erika christensen, kate beahan. Jodie foster as kyle pratt, a recently widowed aircraft aviation engineer. Alicias siblings nicknamed her jodie, a name she has used in her profession. Flightplan is a 2005 psychological thriller mystery film directed by robert schwentke, written by peter a. At 30,000 feet, the child vanishes, and nobody will admit she was ever on the plane. Hunting for a child no one believes is there the new york times. Kyle, carrying julia, escapes into the aircrafts noncombustible hold. Its a massive doubledeckerjet that, ironically, looks almost identical to a real plane that would enter service just a few years later, the airbus a380.
Struggling to recover emotionally from a brutal assault that killed her fiance and left her in a coma, a radio personality begins a quest for vengeance against the perpetrators that leaves a bloody trail across new york city. Her husband david john benjamin hickey died from falling off the roof of an avionic manufacturing building, and now kyle and her six yearold daughter julia marlene lawston are flying home to long island to bury him and stay with kyles parents. Its like a classic locked room murder, in which the killer could not possibly enter or leave, but the victim is nevertheless dead. Flightplan is a suspense thriller starring jodie foster as kyle, a woman who boards a plane in germany bound for america, with her six year old daughter in tow. Mar 10, 2009 yeah she did when she walked off the plane with her daughter all the flight crew had a shock, they couldnt beleive she had a daughter, the guy had her daughter all along.
Jodie fosters flightplan role originally written for a guy. By asking this question and not cheating on the answer, flightplan delivers a frightening thriller with an airtight plot. The movie stars jodie foster in a story that bears similarities to her panic room 2002. In both films, a woman uses courage and intelligence to defend her child against enemies who hold all the cards. Why did the dad get killed and why was the child kidnapped in. She has received two academy awards, three british academy film awards, two golden globe awards, and the cecil b. No one on the plane can remember her daughter being on the flight. His wife, aircraftpropulsion engineer kyle pratt, and their 6yearold daughter julia pratt.
A divorced woman and her diabetic daughter take refuge in their newlypurchased houses safe room, when three men breakin, searching for a missing fortune. When carson finds julia gone, he turns his back and taunts kyle that. A woman is forced to prove her own sanity to save the life of her daughter in this taut thriller. This role, for which she received an academy award nomination in the best. Foster storm through a phony airplane for an entire movie has its very minor pleasures. Responding to her daughters disappearance, kyle and the crew try to figure out. A woman foster boards a plane with her daughter, falls asleep and discovers that the little girl is missing. Jul 24, 2018 flightplan is a movie that starts with a bang filled with potential.
The movie is set on an elgin 474 aircraft, a planewhich fosters character helped design. Jan 15, 20 jodie foster was and still is the talk of sundays golden globes. Kyle pratt jodie foster is a successful aircraft designer who has recently been. Flightplan 2005 jodie foster, peter sarsgaard, sean bean. With jodie foster, kristen stewart, forest whitaker, dwight yoakam. With jodie foster, terrence howard, naveen andrews, nicky katt. She was a demanding and savvy manager for her daughter, making moves that some questioned like having her play a child prostitute at. During a longhaul flight, a mother jodie foster discovers that her daughter is missing. The believability of the story fades in and out till the ending but bottom line is this film is a must for any fan of jodie foster. The youngest of four children born to evelyn brandy foster, jodie foster entered the world on november 19, 1962, under the name alicia, but earned her proper name when her siblings insisted upon jodie. When a frantic mother, kyle pratt jodie foster, searches an airplane for her missing daughter, the flight crew insists she was never there at all. For her work as a director, she has been nominated for a primetime emmy award. Alicia christian jodie foster born november 19, 1962 is an american actress, director, and producer.
Flightplan rescuing her daughter final fight hd youtube. They fly aboard a passenger aircraft, an elgin 474, which kyle helped. She takes a nap and when she wakes up her daughter is gone. Dowling and billy ray, and starring jodie foster, peter sarsgaard, erika christensen, kate beahan, greta scacchi, sean bean, and matt bomer in his film debut. Starring academy award winner jodie foster queen of the anxious look. Jodie foster,peter sarsgaard,sean bean,kate beahan. A coproduction of the united states and germany, the films narrative follows kyle pratt, a widowed american aircraft engineer living in berlin, who flies back to the u. After traveling to berlin on business with her sixyearold daughter, julia marlene lawston, kyle falls asleep on their flight back to new york, only to discover that her daughter has gone missing. But three hours into the flight, she awakens to find her young daughter missing and the entire flight crew, including capt. Jodie foster is very good when put in a very tense situation. In a frenzy to locate her missing child she frightens both crew and passengers alike in a search that may be only in her mind. His wife, aircraftpropulsion engineer kyle pratt, and their 6yearold daughter julia pratt are in emotional turmoil as they fly his body back from berlin to new york for the burial. In my next life, i want jodie foster to be my mother.
Her parents divorced three years before she was born, and she was conceived when her mother, brandy, was visiting her father, lucius, for child support. Rich sean bean and air marshal gene carson peter sarsgaard, claims that the child was never on board. At 30000 feet, the child vanishes, and nobody will admit she was ever on the plane. The actors are all on key here, but as the movie progress, tension deflates as the. Foster storm through a phony airplane for an entire movie has its very. With jodie foster, peter sarsgaard, sean bean, kate beahan. For four years she made commercials and finally gave her debut as an actress in the tv series mayberry r. Sep 23, 2005 the new suspense thriller flightplan, starring jodie foster, blatantly preys upon two of our greatest fears. Academy awardr winner jodie foster gives an outstanding performance in the.
Airplane engineer kyle pratt jodie foster is heading home from germany to new york on a doubledecker elgin 474 to bury her husband. Sep 23, 2005 what follows is a protracted search, some shameless nods to sept. Only a few hours into the flight, foster awakes to find that her daughter has disappeared, and we follow her as she becomes increasingly more desperate and frantic trying to find her. Sep 22, 2005 how can a little girl simply disappear from an airplane at 37,000 feet. A coproduction of the united states and germany, the films narrative follows. In this movie appears christian berkel who will later play the role of fritz. She and her daughter, julia marlene lawston, are relocating from germany to new york city, having to transport her deceased husband with them on board a massive doubledecker airplane she designed. The flightplan concept of recently widowed mother kyle pratt running around an airplane, searching frantically for her missing daughter while the crew insists that her child is already dead, is.
Kyle pratt jodie foster is a successful aircraft designer who has recently been dealing with the. Aboard the alto airlines jumbojet flight, julia goes missing while kyle naps. Apr 22, 2007 the dad was killed to make jodie s character depressed and emotionally vulnerable. But three hours into the flight, she awakens to find her. It is the air marshals plan to kidnap kyles daughter midflight, make it look as. Oct 20, 2016 flightplan 2005 jodie foster, peter sarsgaard, sean bean movies thanks for watching. Flying at 40,000 feet in a stateofthe art aircraft that she helped design. May 16, 2019 jodie foster also won an oscar for 1989s the accused. The problem she faces in flightplan is more baffling. Demille award sunday night, the notoriously private actress very publicly thanked, one. This makes it more plausible that she might imagine that her supposedly dead child was on the plane. I shut it off after 40 minutes, since the plot was going nowhere for me who is usually a jodie foster fan.
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