Version Details

Cast

• Christina Applegate - Christine
• Rob Lowe - Co-pilot Steve
• Gwyneth Paltrow - Donna Jensen
• Mike Myers - John Whitney
• Stephen Tobolowsky - Frank Thomas
• Mark Ruffalo - Ted
• Kelly Preston - Sherry
• George Kennedy - Himself
• Marc Blucas
• Stacey Dash
• Josh Malina - Randy
• Jon Polito - Roy Roby
• Candice Bergen - Sally Weston
• Joshua Malina - Randy

Crew

• Choreography: Robin Antin
• Editor: Christopher Greenbury
• Executive Producer: Alan C. Blomquist
• First Assistant Director: Jack Baran
• Director: Bruno Barreto
• Cinematographer: Affonso Beato
• First Assistant Director: Betsy Magruder
• Art Director: Elizabeth Lapp
• Set Designer: Tristan Paris Bourne ,Ellen J. Brill
• Executive Producer: Robbie Brenner
• Musical Direction/Supervision: Randy Spendlove
• Executive Producer: Amy Slotnick
• Supervising Sound Editor: Eliza Paley
• Production Designer: Dan Davis
• Casting: Marci Liroff
• Screenwriter: Roger Kumble
• Producer: Matthew Baer ,Brad Grey
• Special Effects Coordinator: Ron Bolanowski
• Composer (Music Score): Theodore Shapiro
• Producer: Bobby Cohen
• Sound/Sound Designer: Stephen Halbert
• Co-producer: Francesca Silvestri ,Laura Hopper ,Elizabeth Fox Friedman
• Screenwriter: Eric Wald
• Co-producer: Elizabeth Zox Friedman
• Supervising Producer: Patrick McKee

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• The Stewardesses - DVD

View from the Top: AMG Review
Karl Williams , AMG

A talented cast whiffs the tonal ball badly with this comedy misfire that takes a bizarrely off-kilter view of female empowerment. Although ostensibly set in modern times, the film plays like a relic from an era when "women's lib" was a new idea confined to college campuses and best-seller lists, when the open-busted, zero-G hemline of the stewardess or the rigidly starched white uniform of the nurse were the best professional garb to which a working girl could aspire. How strange then, that the heroine of this retro-misogynist fantasy should be played by a paragon of latter-Hollywood fem-power, Gwyneth Paltrow, the icon who "has it all," hitting the trifecta of ultra-successful career, rich and good-looking lovers, and actual talent / taste. Which is probably why, as a trailer-park dreamer, Paltrow is surprisingly convincing and nimble-witted, even if at times the actress cannot hide her disdain for the weak material. Faring even better is Mike Myers, the only real reason to see the film, in a supporting role that he cheekily tackles with self-referential zeal, winking (sort of literally) at the audience and his cast mates in an almost-successful attempt to persuade everyone that the whole shebang is a mirthful, knowing put-on. It's only when Myers is off-screen -- unfortunately, all too often -- that perplexed befuddlement reasserts itself. What world is this, after all, where being a stewardess is still glamorous, where a veteran stew can become a best-selling author and role model (Candice Bergen, wooden as ever), when an airline's training coordinator can be witlessly but sincerely referred to as "legendary?" Characters appear then disappear (hello and a quick buh-bye to Rob Lowe, Kelly Preston, and a wretchedly offensive gay stereotype played by the poor, abused Josh Malina, who hopelessly minces and sashays through a murderously unamusing part). Subplots are hinted at, then dismissed without so much as a fare-thee-well (whatever happens to the protagonist's blue collar family? You decide, the film doesn't care!). Stewardess uniforms recall not any particular era in history but rather the haute couture of those paragons of style, The Jetsons. A View from the Top (2003) is a godawful mess of faux hilarity that not even an amped-up Myers can rescue, so pitiful is its deranged script and director Bruno Barreto's otherworldly interpretation of same. If you want to make a comedy, remember to make it resonant, containing some recognizable semblance of reality, and especially remember to bring the funny. That's procedure. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide