PASSENGERS
The Story:
Claire Summers (Anne Hathaway), a grief counselor who is called in the middle of the night by her boss Perry (Andre Braugher). There’s been a big plane crash, and Claire’s services are needed for the handful of survivors. Claire responds at once.
She starts a group therapy sessions for the survivors, who include Shannon (Clea DuVall), Dean (Ryan Robbins), and Eric (Patrick Wilson). The survivors all have different recollections of what happened prior to and during the crash, and Claire is determined to help them work out their memories to get everything straight. The task is made more difficult, however, by the near-constant presence of Arkin (David Morse), an ominous looking representative of the airline. He’s determined to write the crash off as pilot error, which Claire and the survivors think is merely a ploy to try to save the airline from a massive lawsuit.
Eric refuses to come to group sessions, so Claire decides to follow up with him on her own. She thinks that he’s exhibiting classic symptoms of PTSD, but he won’t listen to her, insisting that everything is fine. Eric also flirts constantly, and Claire eventually finds herself giving in and crossing that ethical line that exists between all counselors and their patients. But Eric is not really a patient, he reminds her, so they do indeed get it on.
Meanwhile, some of the survivors start disappearing from the group sessions without a trace. Perry thinks they probably just don’t want to come anymore, but Claire believes something more nefarious is going on. She thinks the airline is getting rid of the survivors in an effort to keep them quiet about the crash. She’s therefore determined to get to the bottom of what’s going on before anyone else disappears.
Starring:
Anne Hathaway, Patrick Wilson, Clea DuVall, David Morse,Andre Braugher, Dianne Wiest, William B. Davis, Ryan Robbins
Directed By:
Rodrigo García
Release:
2008
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