Flightplan
Directed by	Robert Schwentke
Produced by	Robert DeNozzi Charles J.D. Schlissel Brian Grazer
Written by	Peter A. Dowling Billy Ray
Starring	Jodie Foster Peter Sarsgaard Sean Bean Erika Christensen
Music by	James Horner
Distributed by	Touchstone Pictures
Release date(s)	September 23, 2005 DVD: January 24, 2006
Running time	98 min.
Language	English
Budget	$ 55,000,000
IMDb profile

Flightplan is a 2005 action/mystery film directed by Robert Schwentke and starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen and Sean Bean. It was released in North America on September 23, 2005. It features a plot similar to the movie Bunny Lake is Missing. Image File history File links This is a copyrighted poster. ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Brian Grazer (born July 12, 1951, in Los Angeles, California) is a Jewish-American film and television producer who founded Imagine Entertainment with partner Ron Howard. ... William (Billy) Ray began writing television and movies since 1994 with Color of Night and is currently working on the movie Breach. ... Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer. ... Peter Sarsgaard (born March 7, 1971) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated American film and stage actor. ... Sean Mark Bean (born 17 April 1959) is an English film and stage actor. ... Erika Christensen in The Perfect Score. ... James Roy Horner (born August 14, 1953) is an American composer of orchestral and film music. ... Touchstone Pictures (also known as Touchstone Films in its early years) is one of several alternate film labels of The Walt Disney Company, established in 1984. ... September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... DVD is an optical disc storage media format that is used for playback of movies with high video and sound quality and for storing data. ... January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up Action film in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Mystery film is a film genre which uses mystery as an element to the plot. ... This article contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer. ... Peter Sarsgaard (born March 7, 1971) is a Golden Globe Award-nominated American film and stage actor. ... Erika Christensen in The Perfect Score. ... Sean Mark Bean (born 17 April 1959) is an English film and stage actor. ... World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Bunny Lake is Missing is a film in the psychological thriller genre directed by Otto Preminger. ...

Taglines

• If someone took everything you live for... How far would you go to get it back?

Story

A variation on the locked room mystery, the movie depicts what happens after Kyle Pratt (Jodie Foster) boards a fictional Aalto Airlines flight from Berlin to New York with her daughter Julia (Marlene Lawston). After falling asleep and waking up about three hours into the flight, Kyle learns that her daughter is missing. She searches the plane for her daughter, but according to the passenger manifest her daughter never boarded the flight. None of her fellow passengers remember having seen her either. A locked room mystery is a sub-genre of detective fiction wherein a murder or other crime is apparently committed under impossible circumstances: no one could have entered or left the scene of the crime, and the death involved could not have been a suicide. ... Jodie Foster (born November 19, 1962) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, director, and producer. ... This article is about the capital of Germany. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... Marlene Lawston (born 1998 in Westchester, New York) is an American child actress. ...

A search of the plane fails to find Julia. The captain refuses to allow the cargo hold to be searched because he is afraid that the searchers could be hurt if the freight shifts because of turbulence. Both the captain and the other crew members suspect that Kyle, unhinged by her husband's recent death, has imagined bringing her daughter aboard the aircraft. She has no boarding pass stub for her daughter, and, according to the airport at which she boarded the aircraft, no one by her daughter's name was on the manifest. In addition, the flight attendant who took the passenger headcount never saw anyone in the seat that Kyle's daughter was supposed to have occupied. Faced with the crew's increasing skepticism regarding her daughter's existence, Kyle becomes more and more desperate, frantic, and erratic in her behavior, continuing to insist that she brought her daughter on board the aircraft with her and that she is somewhere aboard the craft. Kyle herself has second thoughts about having brought her daughter along after being told Julia had died a few days before the flight, but becomes confident she is not imagining things after noticing the heart Julia had earlier fingered on the window by her seat.

Because Kyle is an aeronautical engineer and had helped to design the engines used on the aircraft, a fictional Elgin E-474[1] commercial aircraft, she is able to make use of her knowledge of the aircraft's layout and escapes to hunt for her daughter. She even opens her late husband's coffin, which she is transporting back to the United States. Because of her increasingly erratic, panicked behavior, Carson, the aircraft's air marshal, guards her. However, it turns out that Carson, an on-board flight attendant, and a coroner in Berlin are the true villains. It is implied that they have abducted Julia for the same reason that they killed Kyle's husband. They plan to blow up the aircraft with explosives hidden in the un-x-rayed coffin, after they receive word that the airline has deposited $50 million in a bank account, supposedly according to Kyle's instructions. These actions are meant to implicate Kyle in their crime, and the marshal assumes the role of negotiating her demands. Six F-16 Fighting Falcons with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team fly in delta formation in front of the Empire State Building. ... Sky marshal (also known as air marshal or flight marshal) is a popular term for an undercover armed guard on board a commercial aircraft, to counter aircraft hijackings (skyjackings). Many carriers are known to have sky marshals on board on selected flights, for example, Swiss (since 1970; formerly Swissair), El... In the NATO phonetic alphabet, X-ray represents the letter X. An X-ray picture (radiograph) taken by Röntgen An X-ray is a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength approximately in the range of 5 pm to 10 nanometers (corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 PHz... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ...

After making an emergency landing in Goose Bay, Labrador, the plane's passengers and crew evacuate, with the exception of Kyle, Carson, and Stephanie, the flight attendant. However, by chance, Kyle is accidentally tipped off about what is happening and about Carson. Kyle manages to hit Carson with a fire extinguisher and remove the bomb detonator from his pocket. As he lies injured on the ground, Kyle escapes to go and retrieve Julia, who has been resting unconsciously in the front of the avionics section at the bottom of the plane. Stephanie attempts to prevent Kyle from reaching Julia, but is knocked unconscious by a single punch. Upon awakening, Stephanie frantically leaves the plane, leaving Carson behind as he wakes up to go and find Kyle, making sure she does not leave the plane with her daughter. Carson enters the avionics bay of the aircraft with Kyle and Julia hiding underneath. As he is searching the area where he left Julia, he exclaims that he managed to kidnap her and bring her into the avionics via a food elevator without any other passengers noticing. Carson walks in the front of the plane where he initially left Julia and installed the explosives, and Kyle, with both Julia and the detonator in her hand, blows up the front of the aircraft, thus killing Carson. Kyle and Julia manage to escape safely through a cargo door, and the FBI, flight passengers, and crew members all look at Kyle in amazement as she carries her daughter out onto the tarmac. Happy Valley-Goose Bay (, AST) is a town in Labrador of the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. ... Motto: Quaerite Prime Regnum Dei (Latin: Seek ye first the kingdom of God) Capital St. ... Fire extinguisher A fire extinguisher is a device used to put out a fire, often in an emergency situation. ... The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a federal criminal investigative, intelligence agency, and the primary investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... A close-up view of some freshly-laid tarmac. ...

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Cast

• Jodie Foster: Kyle Pratt
• Peter Sarsgaard: Gene Carson
• Sean Bean: Captain Rich
• Kate Beahan: Stephanie
• Michael Irby: Obaid
• Assaf Cohen: Ahmed
• Erika Christensen: Fiona
• Greta Scacchi: The Therapist
• Shane Edelman: Mr. Loud
• Mary Gallagher: Mrs. Loud
• Haley Ramm: Brittany Loud
• Forrest Landis: Rhett Loud
• Jana Kolesarova: Claudia
• Brent Sexton: Elias
• Marlene Lawston: Julia
• Judith Scott: Estella
• Tonje Larsgard;Flight Attendant

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Controversy

The Association of Professional Flight Attendants, with 85,000 members, had called for an official boycott of the film, which they say depicts flight attendants as rude, uncaring, indifferent, and even one as a "terrorist." The boycott eventually failed. As of February 10, 2006, the film has grossed over $200 million worldwide. Flight attendants, formerly called sky girls, air hostesses, stewardesses and stewards hold the primary responsibility for the safety and comfort of airline passengers. ... February 10 is the 41st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...

Soundtrack

The score of the movie was released 20 September 2005 on Hollywood Records. The music is composed and conducted by James Horner, and the disc contains 8 tracks. A film score is a set of musical compositions written to accompany a film. ... It has been suggested that Abbey Konowitch be merged into this article or section. ... James Roy Horner (born August 14, 1953) is an American composer of orchestral and film music. ...

Flightplan Soundtrack

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1. Leaving Berlin
2. Missing Child
3. The Search
4. So Vulnerable
5. Creating Panic
6. Opening the Casket
7. Carsons's Plan
8. Mother and Child

Total play time 50:36 min.

Trivia

• The fictionally designated E-474 aircraft aboard which the story is set, clearly resembles the Airbus A380 as far as its general arrangement of full length upper and lower passenger decks and four turbofan engines. The number is obviously derived from the Boeing 747. Additionally, the front portion of the aircraft most closely resembles the McDonnell Douglas MD-12. However, there are differences that become apparent such as the way the aircraft overhead bins are opened, the excessive use of the Aalto logo and the extremely large spaces within mechanical areas.
• Every character referring to the Kaiser Wilhelm Hospital, where Kyle's husband was treated and pronounced dead, immediately adds "on Hochstraße" (in Berlin). There is no Kaiser Wilhelm Hospital on that street and city.
• In real life, Sean Bean, who plays Captain Rich, and Peter Sarsgaard, who plays air marshal Gene Carson, both experience a fear of flying.
• The airline featured in the film, Aalto Airlines, may be a reference to Finnish modernist architect Alvar Aalto, but also to the Latin root "altus," meaning "high."
• The casting of Sean Bean serves as a red herring in the movie's plot, utilizing audience's familiarity of Bean playing the role of movie villain. Previews and TV-ads for Flightplan especially played on that expectation.
• Jodie Foster's role was originally written for Sean Penn. The original character's name of "Kyle" was even kept.
• The 35mm prints of this film come from a digital intermediate that has been digitally grain reduced. As a result there are digital grain reduction artifacts visible on all prints.
• Much of the film's plot is taken from Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 film The Lady Vanishes, even including the heart drawn in the fog on the window. Parts of the plot are also similar to that of Bunny Lake is Missing, in that a mother has to convince the authorities that her child is not a figment of her imagination.
• Boeing Aircraft engineers were brought in as technical consultants to the film and actress/producer Jodie Foster to verify the technical accuracy of the fictional aircraft, and the use of authentic terminology and jargon of aircraft design and operation, although the headcount counter Stephanie used in the beginning of the film are currently rarely in use on airplanes
• The Goose Bay scenes were filmed far from snow, at the Mojave Spaceport in the Mojave Desert. One of the main taxiways was closed for the building of the set.[2]
• There is an easter egg on the DVD that contains stock footage from the seatback displays during the movie, and another that shows the challenges of filming post-9-11.
• A "Welcome aboard" video is shown during the passenger boarding scenes, with morphing effects between airline employees speaking different languages. It features greetings in (more or less in order): Mandarin ("Huan Ying"), Italian ("Benvenuti"), Akan ("Awkaaba"), Belarusian ("Zaprashajem"), Greek ("Kalós Ílthate"), Irish Gaelic ("Fáilte"), Russian ("Dobro pozhalovat"), Tagalog ("Mabuhay"), Urdu ("Khush Amdeed"), Japanese ("Yokoso"), Spanish ("Bienvenidos"), English ("Welcome"), French ("Bienvenue"), Norwegian ("Velkommen"), Swedish ("Välkommen"), German ("Willkommen") and Dutch ("Welkom").
• The cartoon that is played on the monitor when Kyle wakes up is Kenny The Shark.

• As in many US-made films, the jurisdiction of the FBI seems to have been expanded beyond the borders of the United States. FBI Agents are seen making enquiries and arrests in Canada when the plane lands there. Additionally, those agents cite the fact that our office in Berlin has detained the morgue director. Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers, according to Canadian law, would have been the ones to detain suspects.^[1]

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Additional Information

• The DVD release of this movie is one of the few protected with Sony DADC's new ARccOS copy protection.

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Notes

1. ^ Entry in Moviemistakes.com.

External links

• Official site
• Film trailer at Apple.com
• Flightplan at the Internet Movie Database
• Flightplan at Rotten Tomatoes
• Flightplan at Box Office Mojo