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.
Plot
Lisa Reisert (played by
Rachel McAdams) has a fear of flying, and after attending her grandmother's
funeral in
Dallas, Texas, she has to take a night flight (called a
red-eye flight; hence the movie title) to
Miami, Florida. She meets Jackson Rippner (played by
Cillian Murphy) — whom she initially finds charming — and ends up having a drink with him while they wait to board their delayed flight.