Just Mail it in, Why Don't You?

The Jodie Foster Vehicle FlightPlan will surely draw (as in this preview) the adjective "Hitchcockian" perhaps because it plain RIPS OFF "The Lady Vanishes," IMO the best of all King Alfred's films. The premise is that a human being disappears in the middle of a trip on a confined transit vehicle, and the person accompanying the "vanishee" asks everyone for help, but everyone denies that the former was even on board. So instead of a young American fiancee we have widow Foster (keeping to her contract, apparently, for no leading man), instead of a kindly Grandmother type we have a young daughter, and instead of Nazi collaborators we have - what? A Pharmaceutical company? Tom Delay? The trailer even shows a finger tracing from the "vanishee" as the sole proof that she was on board, same as the movie, except instead of the "Lady's" name we see a heart. Brah-vo.