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Overview

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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Carl Ellsworth (screenplay)
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Release Date:
19 August 2005 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Fear Takes Flight
Plot:
A woman is kidnapped by a stranger on a routine flight. Threatened by the potential murder of her father, she is pulled into a plot to assist her captor in offing a politician. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
1 win & 8 nominations more
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The perfect in-flight movie more (631 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Rachel McAdams ... Lisa Reisert

Cillian Murphy ... Jackson Rippner

Brian Cox ... Joe Reisert

Jayma Mays ... Cynthia

Laura Johnson ... Blonde Woman
Max Kasch ... Headphone Kid
Angela Paton ... Nice Lady

Suzie Plakson ... Senior Flight Attendant
Jack Scalia ... Charles Keefe
Terry Press ... Marianne Taylor (as Teresa Press-Marx)
Robert Pine ... Bob Taylor

Carl Gilliard ... Taxi Driver

Mary Kathleen Gordon ... Airline Representative (as Mary-Kathleen Gordon)

Loren Lester ... Irate Passenger

Philip Pavel ... Dallas Ticket Agent
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MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of violence, and language.
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85 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Trivia:
This is the second movie that Rachel McAdams has starred in that references a man named Duke. Previously in The Notebook (2004), her character's husband in old age is nicknamed Duke. In this movie, she tells Jackson that her grandmother had a boyfriend named Duke. more
Goofs:
Revealing mistakes: You can see when Jackson is throwing Lisa against the walls in the bathroom that he really has his hand behind her head. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Marianne Taylor: Taylor. Bob and Marianne Taylor.
Cynthia: Just bear with me one second.
Marianne Taylor: There are other hotels in Miami.
Cynthia: I'm really sorry.
Marianne Taylor: What is the problem here? We made these reservations over six months ago.
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Featured in 2006 MTV Movie Awards (2006) (TV) more
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Diamondback-Cadillac more

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How could Lisa and Jackson have gotten through airport security running around like that?
Did Jackson die?
What happened to Lisa? Why did she have that scar?
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35 out of 52 people found the following comment useful.
The perfect in-flight movie, 12 September 2005
8/10
Author: gus120970 from London, UK

Red Eye is not the kind of movie that's going to win the Palme D'or, but Wes Craven has never been that kind of director, anyway, and his branding is a good indication of what a film-goer can expect.

The fact that Red Eye is a tight little, undemanding package at 94 minutes is part of its charm and an indication of Craven's craft in producing lightweight, but generally enjoyable, box office fare. In fact, it's the perfect kind of movie to show as inflight entertainment, attention-holding without putting any intellectual or emotional challenges on the viewer.

Overall there is a cheesy feeling to the plot, vague terrorist subplot motivation and the supporting characters, and the main section has a TV movie feel. However, there are definite elements of Hitchcockian suspense, and echoes of Schumacher's Phone Booth, which ultimately is a more sophisticated (and pretentious) play on the same idea of emotional crisis being played out suppressed in public.

For a film that focuses mainly on two people sitting in airline seats, it lives or dies on the characters and script. Cillian's icy but eloquent Jackson Rippner and Rachel MacAdams resourceful Lisa are the main reasons the film gets carried off. Not only making the dialogue zing but also giving some sort of Adam's Rib type dimension to their battle of 'male logic' against feminine 'sensitivity'.

In the final portion of the film Craven indulges himself a little Scream style as man-chases-girl-with-knife. The most surprising revelation here is what Brian Cox looks like after the 'Just for Men' treatment, his ubiqutous appearance in films as diverse as Super Troopers, The Ring and this making him the sexegenarian version of Jude Law.

Short haul fun.

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