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View from the Top (2003)

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Reviews Counted: 120

Fresh: 17

Rotten:103

Average Rating: 3.7/10

Consensus: Uneven in tone and badly edited, A View From the Top wastes the talents of its cast and condescends to its characters.

Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release: Mar 21, 2003 Wide

Box Office: $15,512,221

Synopsis: 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... 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. [More]

Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Candice Bergen, Kelly Preston

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

Director: Bruno Barreto

Director: Bruno Barreto
Screenwriter: Eric Wald
Producer: Brad Grey, Matthew Baer, Bobby Cohen
Studio: Miramax Films

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Miss Paltrow? We're gonna need that Oscar back.

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05/19/04
Colin Covert
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[A]n airy bit of fluff, a soap bubble of a movie.

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01/04/04
Daniel M. Kimmel
Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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Teeters on the edge of lightweight, bland fare more associated with what's on airline menus. But the cast adds flavor and energy to the otherwise unremarkable itinerary.

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09/14/03
Prairie Miller
Long Island Press
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Not even cameos by Rob Lowe as a copilot, Chad Everett as Sally's Weston's husband, or George Kennedy as an airline passenger can rev up this plummeting plane wreck.

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09/11/03
John J. Puccio
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A flat, superficial comedy that never establishes a tone.

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09/03/03
Kirk Honeycutt
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08/12/03
Jamie Russell
BBC
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O filme pode até não ser uma obra-de-arte, mas está longe de ser o desastre que muitos anunciaram. Ao menos, ele diverte.

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08/09/03
Pablo Villaca
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08/08/03
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It's a pity...that such a first-class cast is forced to fly economy in this aimless exercise that never knows its destination.

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08/03/03
Shannon J. Harvey
Sunday Times (Australia)
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It aggressively browbeats you into enjoying it while it’s on, even if it’s the sort of movie that evaporates from memory once the lights come up.

Full Review Source: State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) | comment Comment
06/27/03
Nick Rogers
State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL)
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If you’re looking to spend a couple of hours in first class, View from the Top is definitely not the ticket.

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06/04/03
Richard Horgan
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The Christina Applegate renaissance is in serious jeopardy.

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05/28/03
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05/14/03
Jeanne Aufmuth
Palo Alto Weekly
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Paltrow cannot begin to save this unfunny flight attendant comedy that should have gone direct to video.

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04/27/03
Hap Erstein
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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The experience of watching this movie is a lot like commercial air travel: the flight attendants try to make your experience as pleasant as possible, but it's still a long, dull ride in a small seat.

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04/25/03
Leigh Johnson
Hollywood.com
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There’s really nothing in any of it worth dwelling on, so flat is the writing, so plastic are the performances. . . as it flails for a substance that it will never achieve.

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Andrea Chase
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