Article: FIRST CLASS JODIE FOSTER ON PARENTING, MOVIE PENGUINS AND 'FLIGHTPLAN'.(U)

Byline: Glenn Whipp Film Writer

Given that Jodie Foster has been making movies steadily since she was 7 years old - it's no wonder Dakota Fanning calls Foster her ``role model'' - you can't really begrudge her the three years she took off between ``Panic Room'' and her latest, ``Flightplan,'' which opens today.

Until you see her on screen. Watching her tear through the psychological thriller ``Flightplan,'' playing a mother questioning authority - and her own sanity - after her daughter turns up missing on a trans-Atlantic flight, is to realize just how much Foster has been missed from the cinematic landscape. No other screen actress marshals the ...

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