View from the Top

2003 Directed by Bruno Barreto

Prepare for her arrival.

A small-town woman tries to achieve her goal of becoming a flight attendant.

Gwyneth Paltrow Christina Applegate Mark Ruffalo Candice Bergen Marc Blucas Kelly Preston Joshua Malina Stacey Dash Frederick Coffin Mike Myers Rob Lowe Jon Polito Concetta Tomei Robyn Peterson Nadia Dajani John Francis Daley Priscilla Inga Taylor Matt Roth Donna Marie Recco Daniel Raymont Connie Sawyer David Hayward Chelsey Cole Troy Evans Merrilee McCommas George Kennedy Candice T. Cain Valentin Siroon Jessica Capshaw Show All…

Alternative Titles

Flight Girls – Blondinen im Anflug, Voando Alto, Volando Alto, View.from.the.Top

romance comedy

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Popular reviews

Review by J Shamlian ★½ 4

Add “sit through this movie” to the list of things I’d do for Ayoade.
Review by Juan ★★★★

So I gave View from the Top a four star rating on Letterboxd. That's a thing that just happened and I never expected it to. Until I saw the movie and read a Netflix comment that I found truly helpful.
"Truly awful. I like everyone in this movie but they've been handed a lifeless script that obliges them to say and do things that aren't entertaining. Avoid unless your favorite movie is Romy and Michele's High School Reunion."
This was helpful for two reasons:
1. It let me know how genuinely awful this person is.
2. It let me know that my feelings about this movie were totally spot-on because I adore Romy and Michele's High School Reunion more than…
Review by Connor ★

that 1 star is for how hot mark ruffalo is
Review by Bapaknya Rico ★ 2

Im watching this cause I wanna read Richard Ayoade's book
Review by marsha ★½

as good as a movie about a small town girl that starts off with the song ‘don’t stop believin’ can be
Review by xavi ★★★★★

how can so many of y'all be so wrong about this movie?
Review by jocey ★★

uhhhhhh???? Christina applegate smashes Gwyneth Paltrow’s face in a giant loaf of bread in this????
Review by Nev D'Souza ★ 13

I celebrated my birthday today and I wanted to watch something with tremendous novelty value, something that was evocative of a pre-lockdown memory.
I originally watched this movie in a packed Prince Charles Cinema in London with an introduction by Richard Ayoade who wrote a critical analysis of this movie (all for the sake of comedy). My home-viewing experience this evening didn’t prove to be as hysterical as that night, but I still found myself laughing at just how atrociously awful this film is.
Paltrow plays Donna, a woman who flees her trailer trash lifestyle and supermarket sales position to go and work as a flight attendant. She makes the move after watching a TV interview with a seasoned flight…
Review by the homeless rockstar of palo alto ★

Watched this for Richard Ayoade's book about it and yeah this is not a good picture.
Review by 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 🌷 ★½ 4

Richard Ayoade don’t EVER say I don’t do anything for you!!! I hate planes, flying, AND Gwyneth Paltrow this was ALL for you dude 😭😭😭
Review by paige ★★★★★

I’m a flight attendant now!!!!! I think of this film every day
Review by alex ★★★★★

now this is FEMALE EMPOWERMENT

Recent reviews

Review by ___kiana___ ★½

she gave up flying to PARIS as her career FOR A MAN???? mark ruffalo is cute don’t get me wrong but not THAT cute
i wish the real life flight attendant outfits were this cute :/ (not in a weird sexualizing women in the workplace way, in a ‘i want to be a flight attendant and i want to wear cute blue dress and tiny scarf’ way)
Review by notcooltate ★★★

My sister and I used to watch this when I was a kid along with clueless, freaky Friday (Lindsay Logan version of course) , Romy and Michele, mean girls, Burlesque and Thelma and Louise. So if you ever want to know what kind of person I am, this is it.
Review by dais ★★★

the perfect amount of cheese i needed tbh. also gwyneth in those sunglasses. YES. also kelly preston :( rip angel
Review by Wouter Woltering ★★★★

i don't care what anyone says this movie is amazing
Review by 🥺 ★★★★

yall some haters on this app, this is actually very nice
Review by Mila (Mee-luh) ★★½

They don’t add bloopers at the end of a movie anymore, and this is sad
Review by claudia

richard ayoade was absolutely right
Review by Rezwanul Choudhury ★★

I too am here because of Ayoade.
Review by Louis Rabinowitz ★

plane stupid
Review by AYO4499 ★½

Oh god the last scene was unexpected in a very bad way
Review by Gillian Kwok

required viewing for ayoade on top <3
Review by reubtolo ★★★★

oddly perfect. very subtly funny and self-aware, Myers and Paltrow are excellent. also we love short king representstion.