Up in the Air (2009)

Directed by: Jason Reitman
Produced by: Ted Griffin, Michael Beugg, Tom Pollock, Joe Medjuck
Written by: Walter Kirn (novel), Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner (screenplay)
Starring: George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Melanie Lynskey, Danny McBride, J.K. Simmons
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release date: December 4, 2009
Running time: 109 min.
Country: United States
Language: English
Rated: R

Synopsis: George Clooney plays Ryan Bingham, a man who travels around the country to terminate corporate employees. On occasion he delivers motivational speeches about the virtue of a relationship-free life. He relishes the comfort of being anonymous during his perpetual travels. He does not have a personal life and he numbs himself with sex, booze and drugs. His company chooses to ground him and keep him at the corporate headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska.