the Quasi Effect

casts:

Jodie Foster: Kyle Pratt
Peter Sarsgaard: Carson
Sean Bean: Captain Marcus Rich
Kate Beahan: Stephanie
Michael Irby: Obaid

Flightplan is a 2005 thriller 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 many plot similarities with the films Bunny Lake is Missing, in that a mother has to convince the authorities that her child is not a figment of her imagination, and Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes.
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 six-year-old daughter Julia (Marlene Lawston). After falling asleep and waking up about three hours into the flight, Kyle discovers her daughter is missing. She searches the plane for her daughter, but is then told that according to the passenger manifest her daughter never boarded the flight. None of her fellow passengers remembers having seen her either.
Because of her increasingly erratic, panicked behavior, Carson (Peter Sarsgaard) the air marshal, is ordered by the captain to guard her.

Because Kyle is an aeronautical engineer and had helped to design the engines used on the aircraft, a fictional Elgin E-474 commercial aircraft, she is able to make use of her knowledge of the aircraft’s layout and escapes to hunt for her daughter. Finding her way down to the freight deck, she even opens her late husband’s casket, which she is transporting back to the United States. Carson finds her, puts her in handcuffs and escorts her back to her seat, leaving the casket open.

At this point it is revealed that Carson and a coroner in Berlin are the true villains. having devised a complicated scheme to con the airline into transferring $50,000,000 to a bank account, claiming that Kyle has revealed herself to him to be a hijacker and is threatening to blow up the aircraft with explosives hidden in the un-x-rayed casket unless her demands are met. In fact, the villains have previously killed Kyle’s husband and have now abducted Julia to create this situation so they can frame Kyle as the hijacker and extortionist.