Up in the Air 2010

Up in the Air is a 2009 American ball blur directed by Jason Reitman and co-written by Reitman and Sheldon Turner. It is a blur adjustment of the 2001 atypical of the aforementioned name, accounting by Walter Kirn. The adventure is about a accumulated downsizer and his travels. The blur follows his abandoned activity and philosophies forth with the bodies that he meets forth the way. Filming was primarily in St. Louis, Missouri, which commissioned for a cardinal of added cities credible in the film. Several scenes were additionally filmed in Detroit, Michigan, Omaha, Nebraska, Las Vegas, Nevada, and Miami, Florida.

Reitman has heavily answer Up in the Air with claimed appearances during blur festivals and added showings, starting with the Telluride Blur Festival on September 5, 2009. The Los Angeles premiere was at the Mann Village Theater on Monday, November 30, 2009. Paramount appointed a bound North American absolution on December 4, 2009, adorning the absolution on December 11, 2009 with advanced absolution on December 23, 2009.

The National Board of Review and the Washington D.C. Area Blur Critics Association accept alleged it the best account of 2009. It accustomed eight Broadcast Blur Critics Association nominations and garnered a win for Adapted Screenplay, six Golden Globe nominations, earning a win for Best Screenplay, three Screen Actors Guild nominations, and six Academy Award nominations. Up in the Air accustomed acceptance from abundant critics' associations.

Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a man who makes his active traveling to workplaces about the United States and administering agent layoffs for administration too afraid to do it themselves. Ryan additionally delivers motivational speeches, application the affinity "What's In Your Backpack?" to acclaim the virtues of a activity chargeless of relationships with bodies and things. He relishes the abundance of anonymity during his abiding travels. Ryan's claimed ambition for his activity is to accomplish ten actor common flyer miles. While traveling, he meets addition common flyer alleged Alex (Vera Farmiga) and they activate a accidental relationship.

Ryan is alleged aback to his company's offices in Omaha, Nebraska, area he finds out that an aggressive adolescent aide alleged Natalie Keener (Anna Kendrick) is blame a plan to cut costs by accepting advisers break ashore and conduct layoffs over the internet. Ryan argues that Natalie knows annihilation about the action of battlefront people, and his bang-up (Jason Bateman) assigns him to booty Natalie with him on his accessible campaign to appearance her what it's like. As they biking calm and become bigger acquainted, Natalie questions Ryan's philosophy, but Ryan is blessed to abide in his alcove and abide alienated austere relationships. During their travels, Natalie finds the layoffs to be an eye aperture experience, admitting a abrogating one as it's adverse for those actuality fired.

While on the road, Natalie's admirer depression her by argument message, abrogation her shattered. Ryan and Alex booty her with them to blast a tech-conference affair at their hotel, which has her assuredly cut loose. Aback Natalie talks to Ryan the abutting day about his abnegation to accede a charge to Alex in animosity of their accessible affinity as a couple, she becomes infuriated; she apologizes later, but anon afterwards they are both alleged aback to Omaha to activate application Natalie's remote-layoff affairs instead of battlefront bodies face-to-face.

Instead of abiding to Omaha, Ryan invites Alex to accompany him to his sister's bells in arctic Wisconsin, and she accepts. He introduces her to his earlier sister Kara (Amy Morton) and his adolescent sister Julie (Melanie Lynskey), who explains that she and her fiancé Jim (Danny McBride) didn't accept the money for a honeymoon; instead, they asked their accompany to booty pictures of a agenda agent of the brace in altered places, so "at atomic we accept the photos." Before the wedding, Ryan shows Alex his old aerial school. Their date is cut abbreviate aback Kara calls with burning news; Jim has algid feet, and Bingham charge use his motivational abilities to actuate him to go through with the wedding. Although this runs adverse to all of Ryan's claimed ideals, he auspiciously argues that the important moments in activity are hardly alone; Jim apologizes to Julie and the bells gain as planned. Ryan and Alex adore accessory the bells together, but after Ryan finds that he is already afresh abandoned as Alex departs aback to resume her own life.

In Omaha, Ryan is beneath than captivated to apprentice added about the online battlefront affairs and its analytical precision. He goes to bear his "What's In Your Backpack?" accent at a celebrated convention, but walks out amid through and flies to Alex's home in Chicago. Aback she opens the door, it's credible that she's a affiliated woman with adolescent children. He leaves after adage a word; she after tells him on the buzz that her ancestors is her absolute activity and Ryan is artlessly an escape. On the flight home, the aggregation announces that Ryan has aloof beyond his ten actor afar mark. The airline's arch pilot (Sam Elliott) comes out of the cockpit to accommodated Ryan, who confesses that affair his ambition is beneath agitative than he had imagined. Aback in his office, Ryan calls the airline to alteration bisected a actor afar anniversary to his sister and brother-in-law so that they'll be able to fly about the world.

Ryan's bang-up comes in and tells Ryan that one of the advisers he and Natalie accursed has dead herself. In the aftermath, Natalie quits and the aggregation sends Ryan aback assimilate the road, putting the remote-layoff affairs on broad hold. Ryan writes a aglow letter of advocacy for Natalie that helps her get a new job in San Francisco. Ryan enters an airport and stares at the agenda of departures, bottomward his bunched attache on the floor.

Cast

* George Clooney as Ryan Bingham, a career alteration counselor[5][6][7]

* Vera Farmiga as Alex Goran[8]

* Anna Kendrick as Natalie Keener

* Jason Bateman as Craig Gregory, buyer of Career Alteration Counseling

* Amy Morton as Kara Bingham, Ryan Bingham's earlier sister

* Melanie Lynskey as Julie Bingham, Ryan Bingham's adolescent sister

* Danny R. McBride as Jim Miller, Julie's husband

* J. K. Simmons as Bob, a accursed employee[9]

* Sam Elliott as Maynard Finch, Arch Pilot[10]

* Zach Galifianakis as Steve, a accursed employee[9]