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Up in the Air
Director: Jason Reitman
Certificate: 15
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Duration: 109 min
Cast: Jason Bateman, George Clooney, Anna Kendrick, Vera Farmiga, Melanie Lynskey, Danny McBride, Chris Lowell, Tamala Jones, Adam Rose, Lauren Mae Shafer, Steve Eastin, Dave Engfer, James Anthony
In Brief
Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) is a management consultant specialising in the field of firing people for companies that are downsizing. His work takes him around the country, helping him pursue his private goal of accumulating ten million miles in his frequent flyer account and with it, entry to an elite club. Faced by a threat posed by Natalie (Anna Kendrick), a new recruit with a plan to introduce video links which would effectively ground Bingham and his colleagues, he talks his way into one last round trip, in which he will show Natalie the ropes and persuade his boss to stick with the status quo. This time he has an added incentive, having just met Alex (Vera Farmiga), the beautiful and sassy frequent-traveller of his dreams.Reviews or Comments (2) See all»
Clooney can do little wrong for me, his performance as Ryan Bingham was vintage George.
Ryan is an executive consultant that fires people for a living, who spends so much time in the air, that the world of the aeroplane and its paraphernalia has become his real home, he revels in loyalty cards and the status they infer. Bingham is a contradictory character, someone who exudes warmth and charisma but who has little and no time for real human relationships.
A sweet and poignant story without the Hollywood ending.
It's not a comedy really, it's a drama. Half of film I had a thought that it was too unreal story. Wait a bit and you see that film repeat old and undoubted idea: family is everything in our life.
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