| Up in the Air (2009) | |
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| Country | USA |
| Year | 2009 |
| Genre | Drama | Romance |
| Tagline | The story of a man ready to make a connection. |
| Plot | With a job that has him traveling around the country firing people, Ryan Bingham leads an empty life out of a suitcase, until his company does the unexpected: ground him. |
| Trivia | A large amount of the people we see fired in the film are not actors but people who were recently laid off. The filmmakers put out ads in St. Louis and Detroit posing as a documentary crew looking to document the effect of the recession. When people showed up, they were instructed to treat the camera like the person who fired them and respond as they did or use the opportunity to say what they wished they had. A way to discern who are the actors and who are the real people is that the real people do not have dialogue with George Clooney or Anna Kendrick, as they were shot separately. Jason Reitman did this intentionally, feeling that the real people would freak out Clooney and Kendrick. |
| Goofs | Factual errors: The scene in which Ryan is in an airport in Detroit is clearly filmed at the McNamara terminal (as can be determined by the iconic fountain and the signs for Continental at one of the B gates). However, it’s made very clear in the movie that Ryan only flies on American, and American doesn’t have gates at the McNamara terminal (it uses the North terminal). |
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