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Imagine you're taking a trip on an airplane with your only child just days after your spouse has died and you fall asleep, only to wake up shortly afterwards and 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.

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 behavior is going to scare his other 400 or so passengers.

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

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