- published: 06 Sep 2012
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Red Eye is a 2005 thriller film directed by Wes Craven and starring Rachel McAdams as a hotel manager ensnared in an assassination plot by a terrorist (Cillian Murphy) while aboard a red-eye flight to Miami. The film score was composed and conducted by Marco Beltrami.
Lisa Reisert (Rachel McAdams) fears flying. After attending her grandmother's funeral in Dallas, Texas, she takes a red-eye flight to Miami, Florida. While in the check-in line she meets Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy), whom she initially finds charming. They share a drink while they wait to board their delayed flight. Lisa points out the name "Jackson Rippner" is similar to "Jack the Ripper".
When boarding, Lisa finds out that Jackson is on the same flight and is seated beside her. After take off, Rippner reveals that he is a terrorist operative working for a group who intends to assassinate the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Charles Keefe (Jack Scalia) and his family, and Lisa is instrumental in their plans because of her job as Acting Manager at the Lux Atlantic Hotel (where the Keefe family is staying). If she refuses to cooperate, he will deploy a hitman to kill her father, Joe (Brian Cox), at his home in Miami. The assassination plan is to use a portable missile launcher from a boat in a nearby harbor and fire it at the hotel. In order to assassinate Keefe, Rippner must force Lisa to make a phone call from the in-flight phone and order the hotel staff to change his reservation from Room 3825 to Room 4080, a suite facing the harbor.
Actors: Charles Bennett (actor), George Cooper (actor), George Kunkel (actor), Otto Lederer (actor), Loyola O'Connor (actress), Major J.A. McGuire (actor), William J. Bauman (director), William J. Bauman (actor), William MacLeod Raine (writer), Thomas Colmensil (actor),
Genres: Drama, Short,