Flight girls
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Flight girls |
| Original title | View from the top |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK without JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bruno Barreto |
| script | Eric Woods |
| production |
Matthew Baer , Bobby Cohen , Brad Gray |
| music | Theodore Shapiro |
| camera | Affonso Beato |
| cut |
Christopher Greenbury , Ray Hubley , Charles Ireland |
| occupation | |
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Flight Girls (original: View from the Top , alternatively: Flight Girls - blondes on the approach ) is an American comedy film directed by Bruno Barreto in 2003.
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Donna Jensen lives in a small town in Nevada . She reads the biography of the flight attendant Sally Weston and dreams of a career as a flight attendant. Donna is first hired by a small airline. During this time she met Ted Stewart. The two lose sight of each other again. Donna is applying to a major airline with her colleagues Christine Montgomery and Sherry. Sherry does not pass the entrance exam, however. Donna meets Sally Weston and tries to get work on the international lines, but does poorly on a test when she was actually the best in her training group. Jensen is assigned to domestic flights and lives in Cleveland . There she runs into Ted, who, impressed by her determination, resumed his law studies a year ago, and falls in love with him.
Donna talks to Sally Weston about the test results, Weston has Donna fax the test to her. It is not filled in with Donna's handwriting. The women find out that Christine has switched the tests. Weston also recalls that numerous bars of soap were stolen from her bathroom while Christine was visiting. She calls security to have Christine be watched. Christine is later convicted of stealing company property and released.
Jensen is allowed to repeat the test, she passes it with the maximum number of points. She is offered flights to Paris, for which she would have to move to New York City . She takes the job for a while, but then returns to Cleveland out of love for Ted. Donna wants to spend her life with Ted because she can only be so happy. To do this, however, she has to give up her job as a flight attendant for long-haul flights.
In the final scene, you can see Donna as she as a pilot on a short-haul flight wishes her passengers a good day while landing in Cleveland.
Reviews
- Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times (March 22, 2003) that the story was "sweet" and "innocent". He enjoyed the movie about liking the play of the properly cast Gwyneth Paltrow. The comedy could not excite an adult audience, but it could fascinate the teenage girls.
- Stephanie Zacharek wrote on salon.com that the director Bruno Barreto respects his audience instead of bombarding them with jokes. She praised the performance of the actors, especially Gwyneth Paltrow.
- The magazine Cinema 9/2003 described the film as " ambivalent ".
Awards
Christina Applegate was nominated for a Teen Choice Award in 2003 .
background
The comedy was shown in the US in more than 2,500 cinemas and played until April 27, 2003, approximately 15.59 million US dollars one.
Trivia
George Kennedy has a guest appearance here as a First Class passenger.
Web links
- View from the Top in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- View from the Top at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Flight Girls at Metacritic (English)
- Flight Girls ( Memento from May 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) in the Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon
Source evidence
- ↑ Age rating for flight girls . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Roger Ebert
- ↑ Stephanie Zacharek ( Memento of the original dated February 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Business Data for View from the Top
