Red Eye (film)
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| Writer: | Carl Ellsworth |
| Starring: | Rachel McAdams Cillian Murphy Brian Cox |
| Director: | Wes Craven |
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| Distributor: | DreamWorks SKG |
| Release Date: | August 19, 2005 (USA) |
| Runtime: | 85 min |
| Language: | [[English language|English]] |
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Red Eye is a 2005 drama/thriller film, directed by Wes Craven and written by Carl Ellsworth
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Plot summary
Tagline: Fear Takes Flight
Lisa Reisert (played by Rachel McAdams) has a fear of flying, and after attending her grandmother's funeral in Dallas she has to take a night flight (called a red-eye flight, hence the movie title) to Miami. She meets Jackson Rippner (played by Cillian Murphy), whom she finds charming. After the plane has taken off, however, Rippner reveals that he is an operative who intends to assassinate an important political figure, and Lisa is instrumental in his plans. If she refuses to cooperate, then Rippner will prompt a hit-man to kill her father. Reisert has no way of getting help without jeopardizing her father's safety, and the longer she waits the harder it will be to prevent the murder.
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The plan is to use a portable missile launcher from a boat in a nearby harbor and fire it at the hotel. The problem is that the political figure, the Deputy Director of Homeland Security, likes to stay in a different room, one that faces the city (away from the harbor). In order to successfully assassinate him, Rippner must coerce Lisa, who is the manager of that hotel, to make a phone call from the airplane and order the hotel staff to change his room reservation to a particular room that faces the harbor. If she doesn't cooperate with Rippner, he will have her father murdered immediately by a hit-man who is waiting just outside her father's house in Florida.
She makes the phone call, and the hotel staff move the politician to that particular room as he checks in. After the Secret Service has checked and cleared that room, he settles in with his family. After the airplane lands and arrives at the gate, Lisa stabs Rippner in the throat with a pen and bolts off the plane. She runs through the airport and takes an SUV to her father's house. On the way, she makes a cell phone call to the hotel to warn them to evacuate the hotel immediately. The Secret Services gets the politician and his family out of the room just seconds before the missile is fired and hits the hotel.Image:RedEye05.jpg
At the end of the film, Lisa rushes to her father's house to see if he's alright. She finds the hit-man walking up the walkway to the front door, and she runs him over with the SUV. Just when she thought she had saved the day, and everyone was safe, Rippner shows up in the house and battles it out with her. Finally, Lisa's father shoots Rippner just as the police arrive, though whether he actually dies or not is debatable. At the hotel, the politician and the Secret Service are grateful to Lisa and her assistant at the hotel who also helped save the day by pulling the fire alarm.
Main cast
- Rachel McAdams — Lisa Reisert
- Cillian Murphy — Jackson Rippner
- Brian Cox — Joe Reisert
Miscellaneous
- Jackson Rippner's name is a pseudonym based on Jack the Ripper selected to have the same initials as Joe Reisert, Lisa's father, so that Reisert's initialed wallet will not raise suspicion in Rippner's possession.
- Red Eye was also released as Night Flight in some countries.
