Tagline: Terror awaits her on the night flight.
Red Eye movie storyline. Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) hates to fly, but the terror that awaits her on the night flight to Miami has nothing to do with a fear of flying. Upon boarding the plane, Lisa is pleasantly surprised to find that she is seated next to Jackson (Cillian Murphy), the seemingly charming man with whom she had shared a drink-and perhaps even a brief flirtation-in the airport terminal.
But moments after takeoff, Jackson drops his façade and menacingly reveals the real reason he’s on board: he is an operative in a plot to kill the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security… and Lisa is the key to its success. If she refuses to cooperate, her own father will be killed by an assassin awaiting a call from Jackson.
Trapped within the confines of a jet at 30,000 feet, Lisa has nowhere to run and no way to summon help without endangering her father, her passengers and her own life. As the miles tick by, Lisa knows she is running out of time as she desperately looks for a way to thwart her ruthless captor and stop a murder.
Red Eye is a 2005 American thriller film directed by Wes Craven and written by Carl Ellsworth based on a story by Ellsworth and Dan Foos. The film follows a hotel manager ensnared in an assassination plot by a terrorist while aboard a red-eye flight to Miami. The film score was composed and conducted by Marco Beltrami, a frequent collaborator with Craven, who had previously scored the Scream film series. It was distributed by DreamWorks Pictures and was released on August 19, 2005. The film received positive reviews from critics and fans of Craven’s work and was a box office success.
Red Eye opened theatrically on August 19, 2005 in 3,079 venues, earning $16,167,662 in its opening weekend, ranking second in the domestic box office behind The 40-Year-Old Virgin ($21,422,815). At the end of its run, eight weeks later (on October 13), the film grossed $57,891,803 in the United States and Canada, and $37,685,971 overseas for a worldwide total of $95,577,774. Based on a $26 million budget, the film was a box office success.
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Red Eye (2005)
Directed by: Wes Craven
Starring: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brittany Oaks, Kyle Gallner, Laura Johnson, Max Kasch, Jayma Mays, Angela Paton, Suzie Plakson, Mary Kathleen Gordon
Screenplay by: Carl Ellsworth
Production Design by: Bruce Alan Miller
Cinematography by: Robert D. Yeoman
Film Editing by: Stuart Levy, Patrick Lussier
Costume Design by: Mary Claire Hannan
Set Decoration by: Maggie Martin
Art Direction by: Andrew Max Cahn, Richard Fojo
Music by: Marco Beltrami
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some intense sequences of violence, and language.
Distributed by: Dreamworks Pictures
Release Date: August 19, 2005
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