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MOVIES YOU WON'T SEE ON AIRPLANES: The answer: Four years.
The question: How long after 9/11 will it take for Hollywood to start churning out flight-from-hell movies?
Director Wes Craven brings the fast-paced thriller Red Eye to the cineplex tomorrow, in which Rachel McAdams plays a passenger in peril and Cillian Murphy reveals that the "C'' stands for creepy. It's all in good, not-so-clean fun.
Next month, Jodie Foster stars in Flightplan, a movie with an even creepier premise - Foster plays a mother who loses her daughter midflight, only to be told she didn't have a daughter!
Both movies will join this list of films you're not likely to see chosen as the in-flight selection on your next trip out of Logan . . . (in alphabetical order)

Alive (1993): There is no "I'' in team, but there is plenty of "meat." The true-life story of a 1972 plane crash in the Andes has the Uruguayan rugby team turning to cannibalism to survive.

Cast Away (2000): After his FedEx plane crashes, Tom Hanks' charactersurvives on a deserted island by making friends with a volleyball. He'll get nothing and like it, Spaulding.

Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990): Terrorists take over an airport, just in time for the holidays. Bruce Willis saves the day, but in light of 9/11, it's just not the same anymore.

Executive Decision (1996): Terrorists with a nerve bomb hijack a plane and plan to wipe out the East Coast - only Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal and Oliver Platt (?) can stop them, with a little help from Halle Berry.

Fearless (1993): Jeff Bridges and Rosie Perez as plane crash survivors coping with the aftermath.

Hero (1992): Almost forgot about this one with Geena Davis as a TV reporter wondering who saved her and other passengers from a burning plane crash. Psst: It was Tootsie.

Passenger 57 (1992): Terrorists of the 1990s should've known better than to try to hijack a plane with Wesley Snipes on it.

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983): This is a film haunted by both a real fatal helicopter crash and the still-terrifying vignette in which John Lithgow (reprising the TV role portrayed by William Shatner) is the lone passenger who sees a monster on the wing.

Also not showing on an airplane near you: Air Force One, the Airport series of the 1970s (although they instantly make us think of the Airplane spoofs), Con Air, The English Patient, Final Destination and Flight of the Phoenix.