High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Flightplan is a 2005 thriller film directed by Robert Schwentke and starring Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, Kate Beahan, Greta Scacchi, and Sean Bean. It was released in North America on September 23, 2005. Flightplan has several similarities to Alfred Hitchcock`s The Lady Vanishes.