Flight Plan

Isn't Jodie Foster worried about being typecast? I just saw her in this movie, except it was called Panic Room. She played the same frenzied, devoted yet somehow brilliantly protective mother. I realize we need heroines and maybe Jodie feels the need to play them since her career was earned by playing a child prostitute in Taxi Driver and that role led John Hinckley to shoot Reagan.

She's always felt the weight of that and roles like the strong yet sleazy bar hopper led to her first Oscar in The Accused. Once she managed the strong, professional, sleaze-free Oscar winning role, Clarice, she pretty much made a career out of it. This very standard, predictable thriller was literally made for her and gosh, it's hard to refuse Brian Grazier, who has so beautifully resurrected the Sid Vicious look, but, really, I'd like to see her choose more meaningful projects.