... Can you imagine how much terror you would feel? Wouldn't you panic? I know I would and basically this is the basis of the story for Flightplan; a movie starring the ever-talented Jodie Foster as Kyle Pratt; a propulsion engineer.
PLOT SUMMARY
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with heart-pounding suspense, this Hitchcock-like psychological thriller stars two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster (The Silence Of The Lambs, Best Actress, 1991) and features an outstanding supporting cast. Flying at 37,000 feet in a state-of-the-art aircraft, Kyle Pratt's (Foster) six-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone and fighting for her sanity, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.
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and Kate Beckinsale (Pearl Harbor) soar in this true story, written by John Logan, of the legendary rebel billionaire. Howard Hughes (DiCaprio) grew famous for his Hollywood movies, aviation records and glamorous women. He held a bold vision of the future and lived his dreams believing nothing could stop him. From director Martin Scorcese, also featuring Alec Baldwin (The Cooler) and Jude Law (Cold Mountain).Flight Plan: Filled with heart-pounding suspense, this Hitchcock-like psychological thriller stars two-time Academy Award winner Jodie Foster (The Silence Of The Lambs) and features an outstanding supporting cast. Flying at 37,000 feet in a state-of-the-art aircraft, Kyle Pratt's (Foster) six-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believes Julia was ever onboard. And now Kyle, desperate and alone and fighting for her sanity, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.Pearl Harbor: An epic blockbuster with outstanding visual effects, Pearl Harbor is another unforgettable motion picture, written by Randall Wallace, from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay, the hit-making team that brought you Armageddon. Featuring Ben Affleck (Good Will Hunting, Armageddon), Josh Hartnett (The Faculty) and Kate Beckinsale (Last Days Of Disco) in a tremendous all-star cast. As the lives and loves of a generation are tragically swept into the greatest conflict modern man has ever known - World War 2 - the events at Pearl Harbor became a supreme test for the strength of the human spirit. This breathtaking story of love, loss and heroism is a must-see event.
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native iPhone/iPod Touch application for both professional and hobbyist pilots. At its core, FlightPlan functions as an aviation calculator by simplifying many common calculations typically performed with an E6B slide rule computer. FlightPlan makes quick work of your number crunching, and is even used by CFIs to quickly check their student's flight and leg calculations (see Leg Calculator feature).FlightPlan has evolved beyond the core functionality. It now offers many advanced features, including Weight and Balance calculators for both airplanes and helicopters (for linear analysis), live METARs and TAFs, airport data, flex weight calculator, windstar calculator, etc.FlightPlan will continue to evolve as I incorporate more user requested features. My goal is to make FlightPlan as"all inclusive"as possible, so please let me know if there are features you are looking for that FlightPlan does not already offer. I also feel strongly committed to making this product the best value possible; all new features are included in FlightPlan through free updates rather than spinning off separate apps.The development of FlightPlan is greatly influenced by your comments and feedback so drop by the forum or shoot me an email and say hello!If you have any trouble please visit the forums at the dedicated site so that I can try to correct the problem and make you feel good about your purchase! I cannot see reviews from other regions so if you have a problem in that region I won't see it unless you use one of my provided support channels. Also visit the forum for information on upcoming updates and to request new features.The current set of features:Conversions:- Avgas kilograms and gal (US) conversion- Avgas kilograms and litres conversion- Avgas Pounds (lbs) and Gallons- Avgas Pounds (lbs) and Litres- Celsius and Fahrenheit- Feet and Meters- Gallons (Imperial) and Litres- Gallons (US) and Litres- Inches of Mercury to Millibars- Jet-A1 kilograms and gal (US) conversion- Jet-A1 kilograms and litres conversion- Jet A-1 Pounds (lbs) and Gallons- Jet A-1 Pounds (lbs) and Litres- Kilograms and Pounds (lbs)- Kilometers Per Hour and Knots- Kilometers Per Hour and Mach- Kilometers and Nautical Miles- Kilometers and Statute Miles- Knots and Miles Per Hour- Latitude/Longitude Formats- Litres and Gallons (Imperial)- Litres and Gallons (US)- Nautical Miles and Statute Miles- Miles Per Hour and KnotsWeather:- Wind Direction and Speed- Heat Index- Dewpoint- Density Altitude- Pressure Altitude- Cumuliform Cloud Base- Temperature from PA and DA- METARs- TAFs- International WeatherNavigation:- Climb Gradient to Climb Rate- Course, Ground Speed, Wind Correction Angle- Course/Distance from 2 Lat/Lon Coords (GPS or manual entry!)- Critical Point- Distance from Time&Ground Speed- Heading, Ground Speed, Wind Correction Angle- Leg Calculator- Rate and Radius of Turn- Rate of Descent- Required Ground Speed- Runway Crosswind with Gusts- True Airspeed, Density Altitude, Pressure Altitude- Time En-route- True Airspeed (Rule of Thumb)- Wind Star- Airports (AirNav.com)- Global Airport Data- Global Navaids- NOTAMs (TFRs from NIFC)Fuel:- Endurance- Flex Weight Take Off- Fuel Burn- Fuel Rate- Fuel Uplift- Fuel Volume to Weight- Fuel Weight to Volume- Point of No ReturnWeight and Balance:- Small Aircraft- Medium aircraft- Helicopters!MyLinks:- Allows users to create links to helpful websites from within FlightPlan. Some useful sites may be specialized local airport and weather data sites for your country!News:- Gives users a way to check for any FlightPlan related news right from the softwareUser Guides:- Documentation on advanced features of FlightPlan
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middle of, thenFlightplanis an effective, pacey Hollywood thriller, that somehow manages to hold everything together in spite of its challenging plausibility. Credit for that must go to its lead actress. In the hands of a lesser talent, this is just the kind of movie that could descend into obscurity. But Jodie Foster, as always, injects her character with a believability and a drive thats hard to resist, and here is no different.The plot sees Foster flying her late husbands body back home on a commercial flight. As her and her six year old daughter settle down, Foster soon falls asleep, awaking to find no sign of her child, and no one who can even remember her being on the flight. Has someone taken her? Is it all in Fosters mind? These are the questions the film circles, and for a good hour of its running time, it is compelling Hollywood-style entertainment.The cracks soon appear when you examine the film more closely though, and its as ifFlightplanis just as aware of that as everyone else. The decision, therefore, to keep the film moving at a good pace is a wise one, leaving the viewer free to switch their brain off and just enjoy the ride, without querying too much the glabrous script that rarely makes as good use of the premise as youd hope. Yet the film still works. It may, after the credits have rolled, have failed to live up to its potential, and theres a good hour of dissection waiting to happen afterwards. Yet, crucially, theres also the best part of a couple of hours of good, solid entertainment in it for you too.--Jon Foster
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Advantages: Jodie Foster, Sean Bean Disadvantages: a few minor plot flaws
...ever having been on the flight seems to be gone too. Can you imagine how much terror you would feel? Wouldn't you panic? I know I would and basically this is the basis of the story for Flightplan; a movie starring the ever-talented Jodie Foster as Kyle Pratt; a propulsion engineer.
'''PLOT SUMMARY'''
Kyle is based in Germany and the movie begins with Kyle having to deal with her husband's suicide by jumping ... ...even seen Julia board the flight or have even noticed her sitting next to Kyle before they moved to vacant seats further back so they could stretch out and have a nap. She tries hard not to panic; after all, Julia couldn't have gone far, could she? But as time passes and she can't find her little girl anywhere Kyle insists on speaking with the Captain, played by Sean Bean, who listens to her worries and agrees for the cabin crew to conduct thorough ... more
Imagine you're taking a trip on an aeroplane with your only child just days after your spouse has died and you fall asleep, only to wake up shortly afterwards to find your child has seemingly disappeared. Not just disappeared from their seat but all trace of them ever having been on the flight seems to be gone too. Can you imagine how much terror you would feel? Wouldn't you panic? I know I would and basically this is the basis of the story for Flightplan; a movie starring the ever-talented Jodie Foster as Kyle Pratt; a propulsion engineer.
PLOT SUMMARY
Kyle is based in Germany and the movie begins with Kyle having to deal with her husband's suicide by jumping from the roof of a building and Kyle trying to deal with her grief whilst preparing to take her 6 year old daughter Julia to New York to bury her husband.
As if she's not had enough pain to deal with, when she wakes on the plane and Julia is missing, absolutely no one seems to actually believe her. Everyone claims not to have even seen Julia board the flight or have even noticed her sitting next to Kyle before they moved to vacant seats further back so they could stretch out and have a nap. She tries hard not to panic; after all, Julia couldn't have gone far, could she? But as time passes and she can't find her little girl anywhere Kyle insists on speaking with the Captain, played by Sean Bean, who listens to her worries and agrees for the cabin crew to conduct thorough searches of all areas that Julia could feasibly hidden in. Whilst Julia isn't found, the Captain starts to doubt her sanity and puts her in the care of an air marshal who happens to be on board, Carson (Peter Sarsguard) as Kyle seems to be getting hysterical and the Captain is concerned her behaviour is going to scare his other 400 or so passengers.
MY ANALYSIS
Now this is a film, a piece of fiction - so we shouldn't get too deeply immersed into it, but can you imagine how you would feel if you were in our heroine's position? Foster's acting was so convincing that I could practically feel her panic myself and I was glued to my seat watching the film to find out what happened. It was a traumatic ride mind you and kudos to Foster that she manages to invoke such emotions from the viewer. Throughout the film until just before the climax of the film, you don't know if Foster is a psycho and imagined her daughter's presence on the flight or if there is a conspiracy by everyone on the plane against her or what else to imagine. It's very atmospheric and there's one scene where the penny drops and Foster realises that the crew all think she's mad and she turns it around and accuses them of all being insane. The way this scene is filmed is key to how we, as viewers, get to empathise with her character. She doesn't come across as a hysterical mother throwing her weight around and being abusive to everyone around her in her state of panic but as someone who has just suffered a major trauma in her life (i.e. the loss of her husband) and is now facing the loss of her daughter. It was also interesting to see Foster looking like she's aging now. I guess her character is supposed to be in her 40s and it surprised me somewhat that you get to see Foster looking so vulnerable with wrinkles showing!
I always adore Sean Bean whether he's playing the good guy or the bad guy. I am glad he was cast as the Captain, even though he didn't have as much screen time as I would have liked. I think he did the role justice and he sure did look suave in his Captain's uniform!
Peter Sarsguard as the air marshal played an interesting role. He looks very clean cut and has sort of a smiley face and because of this look it was very hard to work out what he was thinking and whether he was playing the role seriously or not. It was difficult to work him out as I've not seen him in any other films that I can think of. It might have been deliberate and if so, it was very clever. Even if it wasn't deliberate; it worked. He did his role real justice!
The young actress who played Julia, Marlene Lawston, was very sweet and all credit to her acting skills that her character's sadness at losing her father looked extremely realistic. She also is not given very much screen time but obviously it was important to cast a child who could work well with Foster (which she did) and could portray grief credibly (also which she did)!
For those who enjoy hi-tech aspects of films, there are a few good things to look out for namely the way the credits roll on the side of the train at the start of the film and the way they run at the end of the film. The plane used in the film is a fictional model (the Aalto E-474) and seriously I've never seen a plane that large. It had two floors for passenger seating as well as a bar area and was even carrying a car in the luggage area - the whole plane just seemed enormous! I want to fly on a plane like that!
One particular scene which I didn't feel was cleared up was Foster's insistence that an Arab passenger knew about what had happened to her daughter. This wasn't cleared up to my liking and it was somewhat annoying that the "he must be a terrorist because he's Muslim" side-plot was included in the film. When you see the climax of the film, this is even more confusing.
I was quite amused to read on Wikipedia that "The Association of Professional Flight Attendants, called for an official boycott of the film, which they say depicts flight attendants as rude, uncaring, indifferent..." This made me smile as I don't recall the last time I took a long or short haul flight (and I take at least a couple of airline trips every year) where I felt every flight attendant was polite, caring and conscientious. More often it's a case of the majority being rude, uncaring and indifferent and one is lucky when there are one or two good ones on one's flight!
OVERALL THOUGHTS
I can't really say if the story and outcome was credible or not as this would let the cat out of the bag somewhat and I don't believe in spoiling things for potential viewers. I really enjoyed the film and my only complaint was that I felt some bits of the climax might not have been tied up as tidily as I would have hoped. A few small questions were left unanswered but then again I am quite difficult to please when it comes to thrillers or mysteries and want everything clearly explained to my satisfaction. I would be quite happy to give Flightplan a strong 8.5 out of 10!
OTHER INFO
Release date: 2005 Runtime: approximately 100 minutes Director: Robert Schwentke Producer(s): Robert DeNozzi, Charles J D Schlissel, Brian Grazer Music by: James Horner Certification: 12
Advantages: Interesting film Disadvantages: Could probably not watch it more than twice.
...America, so they board their flight with his casket in the hold. Julia is terrified, a child burdened with grief, so understandably she might act strange, but when Kyle wakes up mid-flight to find that her daughter is nowhere to be found, it is just too out-of-character. As time continues and there is no sign of Julia, things start to become more sinister. Nobody ever saw her on the flight, there's two men on board the plane that Kyle could have ... ...Peter Sarsgaard, who plays a flight marshall charged with the duty of guarding Kyle during her desperate search, was also very impressive. The captain and flight attendants were also well performed, as you might expect they start out as very professional and emotionall detached but start to develop their own individual personalities as the film goes on. A few of the passengers also start to stand out and appear either suspicious or at least as potential ...
Ayesha- 11.07.2009
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Advantages: A good thriller, with an interesting story line. Disadvantages: Perhaps not enough tension for some.
...I was pleasantly surprised.
Flight Plan is a thriller directed by Robert Schwentke and starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, and Sean Bean. It was released by Touchstone Pictures in 2005, and is based on the classic film The Lady Vanishes, which was released 67 years earlier.
I am a bit of a wimp these days when it comes to watching films. Anything over a 12 rating and I have to sit near the door. If there is any hint of violence ... ...board believes she boarded the flight with a child. Shockingly, one of the flight attendants calls in to the airport they just departed from, and the gate attendant says that they have no record of Julia even boarding the flight. In addition, according to the passenger list, Julia's seat is registered empty. When Kyle checks for Julia's boarding pass, it is missing.
And so the drama unfolds. Will Kyle find her daughter, or is she just a grieving ...
malloy1 24.11.2009
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Advantages: Action, suspense, great visual and soundtracks good. Disadvantages: Slow for the first 15-30 mins of movie...
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Flight Plan was brought out back in September 2005, I had heard of it, but I hadn’t seen it until 2007, and I’ve already watched it more than once because I think the plot is quite a clever idea - haha that‘s just an excuse for watching a beautiful actress which has a lovely voice and really makes you feel lots of emotions that she feels in the movie, especially how she cares for her child. Besides I normally watch horror movies all the time ... ...to comedies. Flight Plan was written by Peter Dowling and Billy Ray, the director was Robert Schwentke. The film is in English but has subtitles for the spoken German, I believe is in the first half where she is in the morgue. Lots of detail was put into the film, especially making the set for the double decker plane. It was all made from a building but without walls to get easy access to view the chairs, especially like a view from outside the plane ...
inbetweendaysx 01.07.2007
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Advantages: Theories Disadvantages: SOME bad acting
Flight plan is the new project of the Aacademy Award winning producer Brian Grazer, the man behind movies such as; A beautiful mind and Apollo 13, and teamed up with two-time academy award winner Jodie Foster and writer/ Director Robert schwentke this movie is deemed to be a huge score. Synopsis!
Kyle Pratt is an aircraft designer, mauning the unexpected death of her husband. Whilst devastated she makes a strong decision to move away from Berlin ... ...is going through. Whilst mid flight Kyle Pratt awakens to nothing but an empty seat beside her where her daughter should be. She informs the flight attendants as a missing person only to be shown her seat and told that something very strange to her, that her daughter was never on the plane, so facing the problom that she could possibly be losing her mind, she then proceeds to search the plane with or without the help of the crew including the Captain ...
brodiegirl 13.08.2006 (12.04.2007)
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Advantages: Exceptional Film - 10/10 - Nothing Similar available - Gripping Disadvantages: None
...to get it back?
Flight Plan. Flying at almost 40000 feet in the state of the art 474 aircraft, Kyle (played by Jodie Foster) faces every mothers nightmare; when her six year old daughter Juliet goes missing without a trace mid-flight from Berlin to New York. Already emotionally devastated after unexpectedly becoming a widow she tries to prove the cabin and the flight crew that she is not deluded. With her daughters boarding pass and teddy bear also ... ...was on board on this flight but there's no trace. Back at Berlin, Julia has been pronounced dead. And her husbands death doesn't seem to be very unexpected when she loses her mind on the plane.
Feeling desperately alone; crew and passengers thinking she has lost it; Kyle relies on her own wits to be the hero and the detective to solve this mystery.
I personally think that this film is very good. Its an excellent film. The story is completely different ...
mshah786uk 24.05.2006
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Production Year: 1983 - Action/Adventure - Director: Daniel Haller - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Phyllis Davis, Edward Mulhare, David Hasselhoff, William Daniels
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