Up in the Air

    Up in the Air
    2009

    Synopsis

    Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes him to rethink his transient life.

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    Cast

    • George ClooneyRyan Bingham
    • Vera FarmigaAlex Goran
    • Anna KendrickNatalie Keener
    • Sam ElliottMaynard Finch
    • Amy MortonKara Bingham
    • Jason BatemanCraig Gregory
    • Melanie LynskeyJulie Bingham
    • J.K. SimmonsBob
    • Danny McBrideJim Miller
    • Zach GalifianakisSteve

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The Hollywood Reporter

      It's rare for a movie to be at once so biting and so moving. If Ryan's future seems bleak, there's something exhilarating about a movie made with such clear-eyed intelligence.
    • 100

      Entertainment Weekly

      Up in the Air is light and dark, hilarious and tragic, romantic and real. It's everything that Hollywood has forgotten how to do; we're blessed that Jason Reitman has remembered
    • 100

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Up in the Air takes the trust people once had in their jobs and pulls out the rug. It is a film for this time.
    • 90

      Variety

      The timing in the Clooney-Farmiga scenes is like splendid tennis, with each player surprising the other with shots but keeping the rally going to breathtaking duration.
    • 90

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      Up in the Air is poised to be a smash, and Clooney--slim, dark, perfectly tailored--glamorizes insincerity in a way that makes you want to go out and lie.
    • 80

      The New Yorker

      The film is a hybrid. Its backdrop is despair, but the foreground action has the silvery zest of a comedy.
    • 80

      Dallas Observer

      If Steven Soderbergh taught Clooney how to act in "Out of Sight," then Reitman has taught him how to stop acting. This is the most vulnerable, the most playful, the most human performance of his career.
    • 70

      Chicago Reader

      Reitman deserves credit for going through with a bitterly ironic ending, but the movie is marred by its warm condescension toward flyover country.

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