A Very Long Engagement
After a minor appearance in the French period drama "A Very Long Engagement" (2004), Foster starred in three more thrillers. The first was "Flightplan" (2005), in which she played a woman whose daughter vanishes during an overnight flight. It became a global box office success, but received mixed reviews. It was followed by Spike Lee's critically and commercially successful "Inside Man" (2006), about a bank heist on Wall Street, which co-starred Denzel Washington and Clive Owen. The third thriller, "The Brave One" (2007), prompted some comparisons to "Taxi Driver", as Foster played a New Yorker who becomes a vigilante after her fiancé is murdered. It was not a success, but earned Foster her sixth Golden Globe nomination. Her last film role of the decade was in the children's adventure film "Nim's Island" (2008), in which she portrayed an agoraphobic writer opposite Gerard Butler and Abigail Breslin. It was the first comedy in which she had starred since "Maverick" (1994), and was a commercial success but a critical failure. In 2009, she provided the voice for Maggie in a tetralogy episode of "The Simpsons" titled "Four Great Women and a Manicure".