2005 · thriller · drama · mystery
Flightplan
Directed by Robert Schwentke1h 38m2005
Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-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, can only count on her own wits to unravel the mystery and save her daughter.
Our read: Flightplan (2005) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive thriller · drama · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured thriller / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- heavy
- intense
- twisty
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