Up in the Air: Book vs. Movie
Jason Reitman's 2009 film Up in the Air adapts Walter Kirn's 2001 book. George Clooney plays a corporate downsizing specialist who spends his life flying between assignments until a colleague's proposal threatens to ground him.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Walter Kirn
- Year
- 2001
- Pages
- 320Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 8 hr 59 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Sean Runnette
Ryan Bingham makes a living dismissing other people's employees and feels most at home between airports, hotels and rental cars. Before leaving the job he has grown to hate, he intends to reach one million frequent-flyer miles and secure a position with an elusive consulting firm. An increasingly unsettled final circuit threatens the routines that keep his life aloft.
- Director
- Jason Reitman
- Writer
- Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner
- Year
- 2009
- Runtime
- 1 hr 49 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman
- Genre
- Drama, romantic comedy
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Ryan Bingham flies from city to city firing people for companies that prefer not to deliver the news themselves. When a young colleague proposes replacing those trips with video calls, he takes her on the road to demonstrate what the job involves. An affair with a fellow frequent flyer begins to challenge his carefully maintained distance from everyone else.
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