Up in the Air (2009 film)

Up in the Air is a 2009 American comedydrama film directed by Jason Reitman and cowritten by Reitman and Sheldon Turner. It is a film adaptation of the 2001 novel of the same name, written by Walter Kirn. The story is centered on corporate downsizer Ryan Bingham George Clooney and his travels. The film follows his isolated life and philosophies and the people he meets along the way. Filming was primarily in St. Louis, Missouri, which substituted for a number of other cities. Several scenes were filmed in Detroit, Omaha, Nebraska, Las Vegas, and Miami.

Ryan Bingham George Clooney works for an HR consultancy firm which specialises in termination assistance, and makes his living travelling to workplaces across the United States in order to conduct company layoffs and firings on behalf of employers. Ryan also delivers motivational speeches, using the analogy Whats In Your Backpack? to extoll the virtues of a life free of burdensome relationships with people as well as things. Ryan relishes his perpetual travels. His personal ambition is to become only the seventh person to earn ten million frequent flyer miles with American Airlines. While traveling, he meets another frequent flyer named Alex Vera Farmiga and they begin a casual relationship.Ryan is unexpectedly called back to his companys offices in Omaha, Nebraska. An ambitious, freshlygraduated new hire, Natalie Keener Anna Kendrick is promoting a plan to cut costs by conducting layoffs via videoconferencing. Ryan argues that Natalie knows nothing about the actual process, live or not, and does not know how to handle upset people. He plays the role of a fired employee to demonstrate her inexperience. His boss Jason Bateman assigns him to take Natalie with him on his next round of terminations to show her the ropes, much to his annoyance. ........

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