Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Mark Ruffalo, Candice Bergen, Kelly Preston, Rob Lowe, Mike Myers

Director: Bruno Barreto

Summary: Donna, a small town woman, dreams of becoming a first class international flight attendant. She enlists the help of a best-selling author who gives her advice and uses her influence to push Donna forward...

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 attendant.

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Reviewed by: mcdermot7@aol.com
Posted on May 9, 2006 4:44 PM

This is an okay film for Christina Applegate after far too many turkeys. Not 1 of Gwyneth Paltrow's best but as it is not too long a feature you can just about enjoy the in-flight entertainment. Rob Lowe & Mike Myers are okay without being outstanding. A pleasant enough film that could have done from being re-fuelled with a sharper script.

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An ingeniously campy and enormously entertaining piece of fluff, View from the Topstars the impossibly lithe Gwyneth Paltrow as Donna, a white-trash girl with dreams of escaping her dead-end life by becoming an international flight attendant. Her destiny is complicated by a sweet guy (Mark Ruffalo) who just wants to live with his family in Cleveland and by a sister stewardess (Christina Applegate) who stabs Donna in the back. View from the Topdoesn't take itself seriously, yet takes itself just seriously enough--Donna and the rest of the characters treat their absurdly candy-coloured world as if it mattered. As Donna experiences the world and improves her fashion sense, the result is both hilarious and hilariously touching. It also features Mike Myers, Kelly Preston, and Candice Bergen as Donna's visionary mentor. --Bret Fetzer

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Year:	2002
Release Date:	May 10, 2004
Runtime:	83 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	B E D 881146
Keywords:	Top, Comedy, General, View, From
Genre:	Comedy