Article: FILM REVIEW: Jodie Foster's 'Flightplan' falls short of destination

Jonathan Cribbs
University Wire
09-22-2005
(The Diamondback) (U-WIRE) COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Jodie Foster has always been a bit like Katharine Hepburn. Impeccable taste. Restrained, intelligent acting -- just a pleasure to watch. Even if she gets suckered into a bad movie, she always climbs out of cinematic wreckage remarkably spotless.

Take "Nell" for example. An absurd film. Backwoods girl (who can't even read, mind you, and talks like she's been living in another country for her entire life) gets discovered by a pair of doctors who decide to study and civilize her. In retrospect, it might even be a good movie, but the premise sounds like a Hallmark movie of the week.

Even so, Foster got ...

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