History Film / DeadlyMileHighClub

* SignatureStyle: This was made by Johnson Production Group, a major provider of movies for Lifetime, with their frequent director Doug Campbell at the helm, and it has all the hallmarks of their house style: an overbaked, preposterous premise; an IdiotPlot that's heavy on contrived coincidences; a memorable, almost sympathetic villain versus FlatCharacter heroes (and Johnson tends to prefer female villains); then top it all off with a couple of steamy, very softcore sex scenes. This is all executed with a knowing tone of high {{Melodrama}} that often feels like pure {{Camp}}.

* NiceHat: Annie's pink fedora (or trilby; there's dispute over which type of hat it is), which becomes an important plot point.
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Margaret is pretty much every married man's nightmare mother-in-law. Argumentative and pushy, she flat out insults him to his face.

* {{Corpsing}}: Marc Herrmann seems like he's trying hard not to laugh at the sheer silliness of the "toss the box into the ocean" scene.

** ''Driven to Kill'', a 2021 Doug Campbell-directed Lifetime movie, takes SelfPlagiarism to impressive heights, since it's largely a scene-for-scene remake of ''Deadly Mile High Club'' (right down to certain lines of dialogue), except it swaps out vehicles (race cars instead of planes) and does a GenderFlip (male instructor, female student). There are even {{Expies}} of Margaret (much duller and blander) and Gonzo Rogers (even wackier, since he's a dashing, oily Italian racing legend), but it never really replicates the insanity of its predecessor.

''Deadly Mile High Club'' is a 2020 LifetimeMovieOfTheWeek, a {{Thriller}} written and directed by Doug Campbell.

** ''Driven to Kill'', a 2021 Doug Campbell-directed Lifetime movie, takes SelfPlagiarism to impressive heights, since it's largely a scene-for-scene remake of ''Deadly Mile High Club'' (right down to certain lines of dialogue), except it swaps out vehicles (race cars instead of planes) and does a GenderFlip (male instructor becomes a {{Yandere}} for a female student). There are even {{Expies}} of Margaret (much duller and blander) and Gonzo Rogers (even wackier, since he's a dashing, oily Italian racing legend), but it never really replicates the insanity of its predecessor.

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Driven to Kill'', a 2021 Doug Campbell-directed Lifetime movie, takes SelfPlagiarism to impressive heights, since it's largely a scene-for-scene remake of ''Deadly Mile High Club'' (right down to certain lines of dialogue), except it swaps out vehicles (race cars instead of planes) and does a GenderFlip (male instructor becomes a {{Yandere}} for a female student). There are even {{Expies}} of Margaret (much duller and blander) and Gonzo Rogers (even wackier, since he's a dashing, oily Italian racing legend), but it never really replicates the insanity of its predecessor.

** Because PinkMeansFeminine, Annie prefers to wear that color.

* VillainProtagonist: Tanya is the lead character, while Annie is the hero.

* {{Camp}}: Writer[=/=]director Doug Campbell previously made the Creator/EricRoberts vehicle ''Stalked By My Doctor'', usually considered the high watermark of self-aware wackiness within the confines of a Lifetime thriller, and this movie is definitely in the same spirit, with the delirious fantasy sequences, a twisted ColdHam VillainProtagonist, and a zany, far-fetched storyline played out in a deadpan manner.

* DoppelgangerReplacementLoveInterest: A DeconstructedTrope. Jake has the same name as Tanya's dead boyfriend, but looks nothing like him. They even intercut between the two several times to emphasize this point, but apparently Tanya sees ''some sort'' of resemblance, or thinks the old Jake's spirit has taken up a home in new Jake's body, or ''something''.

* TooDumbToLive: 30,000 feet in the air, as a passenger in a two-seat plane, on a flight that was graciously offered to you for free, it's probably best to not insult the pilot or to make a mean remark about an accident she was in, [[spoiler:as Margaret learns, to her misfortune]].