Genre: Romance, Comedy, Betrayal, Gay/Lesbian, Christmas
Tagline: Don't stop till you reach the top.
Plot: This breezy comedy from director Bruno Barreto (FOUR DAYS IN SEPTEMBER) stars Gwyneth Paltrow as Donna, a young woman who dreams of escape from her rural Nevada home town. Her life changes when she sees Sally Weston (Candice Bergen) on TV talking about her book, "My Life in the Sky," and her fabulous career traveling the world as a flight attendant. Soon, the plucky Donna has a job at a small Nevada airline that caters to gamblers and drunks and, along with fellow trainees Sherry (Kelly Preston) and Christine (Christina Applegate), dreams of working the international routes on a large airline. That opportunity arises when Royalty Airlines holds a job fair where the girls are drilled by Mike Myers' hilarious former airline attendant, John Whitney. Soon, Donna and Christine find themselves in training at Royalty's home base with the manic Whitney where the ambitious Donna makes it clear that she's headed for the international routes by acing all of Whitney's tests. However, Donna finds that success doesn't come without its pitfalls when she ends up stationed in Cleveland where she strikes up a romance while still dreaming about jetting around Europe as a first class flight
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 At its best, View from the Top is a mediocre diversion – a movie better watched at home where the remote control can be used (if necessary) to fast forward to the film's best part: the obligatory end credit outtakes.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
Gwyneth Paltrow glows in a light airplane comedy that's actually funny.--Stephanie Zacharek (Salon)
No scenes involving mile-high clubs, lecherous businessmen or randy pilots, but the sincere story of a woman who finds her career is almost but not quite enough. Adult audiences may be underwhelmed. Not younger teenage girls, who will be completely fascinated.  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
There's not much zest here, even with Mike Myers's energetic attempts to steal the movie as a cross-eyed flight instructor. It's not a great sign that two side characters with throwaway roles (Mark Ruffalo and Candice Bergen) threaten to be the most appealing in the movie.--Desson Howe (Washington Post)
It is one of the very rare American workplace films, and as such it's a decent if not overly rigorous examination of that zone where most of us spend our time, where our dreams are crushed, our hopes pulverized, our disappointments amplified and our lives ruined. You know: the office.--Stephen Hunter (Washington Post)
View from the Top is a film that aims for the very bottom; it is the kind of careless fluff piece that studios usually slide right under the public's noses faster than anyone can ask the question, "Isn't Gwyneth Paltrow in that?" C--Craig Younkin (Lee's Movie Info)
"View from the Top" sets back the cause of flight-attendant dignity several decades. On this sinking flight, the passenger-viewers are more in need of a comic than a flotation device.--Ron Weiskind (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
...a cheesy comedy that feels like a relic from the 1980s - and not in a good way, either. --David Nusair (Reel Film Reviews)
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 | Mark Ruffalo
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Collateral, 13 Going On 30 |
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 | Rob Lowe
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Wayne's World, The Outsiders |
 | Mike Myers
Shrek, Shrek 2, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me |
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