Review for Flight Plan

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Still reeling from her husband's death, Kyle Pratt(Jodi Foster) is taking a plane from Berlin to New York on which her daughter disappears. When the captain of the plane (Sean Bean) and an air marshal (Peter Sarsgaard) start to doubt there ever was a girl with the panicked passenger, Kyle takes matters into her own hands  and embarks on a search for her daughter. This is an excellent, suspenseful thriller, seeded with great actors. **** (four stars).

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