Up in the Air (2009)

Release date: 2009-12-23
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Jason Reitman
Production Co: Paramount Pictures, Cold Spring Pictures, DreamWorks
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rating: 7.4/10
Length: 1h 49min

Storyline

Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles, and just after he's met the frequent-traveller woman of his dreams.

Plot Keywords

on the road, travel, airport, business trip, fired from the job, motivational speaker, unemployment, google, computer, hotel, interview, montage, wedding, adultery, isolation, character repeating someone else's dialogue, bare butt, nudity, employer employee relationship, cynicism

Short Review

A slick, cute, diverting, superbly-acted film but also an empty one due to the picture's raison d'tre: a one-trick pony concerned solely with lack of commitment.