Red Eye (2005)
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Red Eye is a American action 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. 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. An extended version of the film, which added previously unused footage to increase the running time, was broadcast on the ABC network several times.
Hotel manager Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) arrives at Dallas Love Field to take a red-eye flight back to Miami, Florida. She meets a handsome young man named Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy), also traveling to Miami. While waiting to board, they share a drink at the airport bar and engage in small talk.
Lisa is surprised to find that Jackson is seated beside her. After takeoff, Jackson’s charming demeanor quickly turns sinister as he informs Lisa that he works for a domestic terrorist organization planning to assassinate Charles Keefe (Jack Scalia), the current United States Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. Lisa’s managerial position at the Lux Atlantic Hotel in Miami, where Keefe and his family are staying, is crucial to their plot. As Acting Manager, Lisa must make a call from the in-flight phone to order the Keefe family be moved to a targeted room where a missile launched from a boat in the harbor will strike. Her non-compliance will result in Jackson’s hitman accomplice killing Lisa’s father, Joe (Brian Cox).
Director: Wes Craven
Writers: Carl Ellsworth (screenplay & story), Dan Foos (story)
Stars: Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox, Laura Johnson, Max Kasch, Jayma Mays, Angela Paton
Cast:
Rachel McAdams | … | Lisa Reisert |
Cillian Murphy | … | Jackson Rippner |
Brian Cox | … | Joe Reisert |
Laura Johnson | … | Blonde Woman |
Max Kasch | … | Headphone Kid |
Jayma Mays | … | Cynthia |
Angela Paton | … | Nice Lady |
Suzie Plakson | … | Senior Flight Attendant |
Jack Scalia | … | Charles Keefe |
Terry Press | … | Marianne Taylor (as Teresa Press-Marx) |
Robert Pine | … | Bob Taylor |
Carl Gilliard | … | Taxi Driver |
Mary Kathleen Gordon | … | Airline Representative (as Mary-Kathleen Gordon) |
Loren Lester | … | Irate Passenger |
Philip Pavel | … | Dallas Ticket Agent |
Amber Mead | … | Dallas Ticket Agent |
Dey Young | … | Dallas Gate Agent |
Brittany Oaks | … | Rebecca |
Tina Anderson | … | Rebecca’s Mom |
Jeanine Jackson | … | Passenger with Iced Mocha |
Joey Nader | … | Tex-Mex Bartender |
Kyle Gallner | … | Headphone Kid’s Brother |
Dilva Henry | … | Newscaster |
Monica McSwain | … | Junior Flight Attendant |
Tom Elkins | … | Pilot |
Amanda Young | … | Flight Attendant |
Dane Farwell | … | Hit Man at Dad’s House |
Jennie Baek | … | Keefe’s Assistant |
Colby Donaldson | … | Keefe’s Head Bodyguard |
Beth Toussaint | … | Lydia Keefe (as Beth Toussaint Coleman) |
Adam Gobble | … | Keefe’s Son |
Megan Crawford | … | Keefe’s Daughter |
C.C. Taylor | … | Keefe’s Bodyguard |
Scott Leva | … | Keefe’s Bodyguard |
Marc Macaulay | … | Coast Guard Officer |
Skip Crank | … | Man on Fishing Boat |
Mark Cotone | … | Man on Fishing Boat |
Jim Lemley | … | Man on Fishing Boat |
Martin Trees | … | Male Flight Attendant |
Noelle Drake | … | Coffee Shop Girl |
Jenny Wade | … | Coffee Shop Girl |
Paul Aldanée | … | Bodyguard (uncredited) |
Terrence Baker | … | Airline Passenger (uncredited) |
Lance Balding | … | Coast Guard Officer (uncredited) |
Jason Bartley | … | Airport Security (uncredited) |
David Bedell | … | Fisherman-Terrorist (uncredited) |
Chris Bender | … | Airline Passenger (uncredited) |
John Eric Brown | … | Airport visitor (uncredited) |
Guy Chapman | … | Airline Passenger (uncredited) |
Florence Chung | … | Airline Passenger (uncredited) |
Adam D. Cohen | … | Passenger / Noodle Boy (uncredited) |
Wes Craven | … | Airline Passenger (uncredited) |
Patricio Doren | … | Passenger (uncredited) |
Nathan Effron | … | Airline Passenger & Singer At End of DVD Gag Reel (uncredited) |
Carl Ellsworth | … | Airline Passenger (uncredited) |
Rand Gamble | … | Traveler (uncredited) |
Dava Hulsey | … | Airline Attendant (uncredited) |
Paulina Hunter | … | Ticket Agent (uncredited) |
John Paul ‘J.P.’ Jones | … | Man on Fishing Boat (uncredited) |
William Luke | … | Airport Security (uncredited) |
Rod Lundgren | … | Airline Passenger (uncredited) |
Marianne Maddalena | … | Flight Passenger (uncredited) |
Mason Novick | … | Flight Passenger (uncredited) |
John T. O’Brien | … | First-Class Passenger (uncredited) |
Anthony W. Preston | … | Passenger (uncredited) |
Carmen Gloria Pérez | … | Airline Passenger (uncredited) |
Elena Rosa | … | Airline Passenger (uncredited) |
Angela Schnaible | … | Flight Attendant (uncredited) |
Sylvan Shen | … | Traveler (uncredited) |
Keith E. Smith | … | Business Passenger (uncredited) |
Daniel Sogamoso | … | Airline Passenger (uncredited) |
Jimmy Star | … | Airline Passenger (uncredited) |
Liam Tuohy | … | Airline Passenger (uncredited) |
Sheila Waldron | … | News Presenter / Woman on Fishing Boat (uncredited) |
Molly Weiner | … | Airline Passenger (uncredited) |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia