Article: FIGHT OR FLIGHT Jodie Foster returns to the big screen as a desperate mum Film Focus: JODIE FOSTER

JODIE FOSTER hasn't taken a major screen role in three years. But the reason she has been off screen is one of the reasons why she decided to make a comeback in her new movie Flightplan.

Apart from a tiny cameo in last year's A Very Long Engagement, Jodie Foster hasn't done a major role since Panic Room. That's because she's been devoting herself to being a mother to her two sons, Charles and Kit.

But Flightplan enticed her back in front of the cameras because it's a thriller that turns on the incredible bonds between a mother and child.

"I did make a lot of movies where I played mums before I had kids, so clearly it is something that I think about, " says the Oscar- winning actress who ...

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