View from the Top (2003) on Netflix
Donna Jensen wants out of her trailer in Silver Springs, Nevada. Sally Weston's memoir convinces her to become a flight attendant, though she has never been on a plane.
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Plot summary
Donna Jensen lives in a trailer in Silver Springs, Nevada, and works as a clerk at a Big Lots store alongside Tommy, her high school boyfriend. When Tommy leaves, Donna sees a television interview with Sally Weston, the author of a memoir called My Life in the Sky, and sets out to become a flight attendant, a job she has never done. She is hired by Sierra Airlines, where Sherry, a senior attendant, and Christine Montgomery work beside her. There she meets Ted Stewart, a law school dropout. Wanting to move up, Donna persuades Sherry and Christine to come with her to a Royalty Airlines job fair in San Francisco.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about View from the Top (2003)
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- Completed in 2001, View from the Top was originally scheduled for theatrical release in December of that year, but was delayed in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks and underwent significant editing.
- Screenwriter Eric Wald wrote View from the Top as a spec script while a student at the University of California, Los Angeles; it was developed with producer Brad Grey before being sold to Miramax for $450,000.
- Miramax executive Harvey Weinstein said that Paltrow was paid a salary of $10 million for her role in the film.
- British comedian Richard Ayoade wrote an in-depth comic analysis of the film, the 2019 book Ayoade on Top, whose promotional blurb says he argues for the canonisation of this brutal masterpiece, a film that celebrates capitalism in all its victimless glory.
- Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times panned the film for its tonal inconsistency, writing that it was worth commenting on only for its shocking ineptitude, and Paltrow herself later disparaged it, calling it the worst movie ever.
- The film was among the first to feature Coors Brewing Company product placement, after Miramax struck a brand deal with the brewery in 2002.
