page_title: Up in the Air (2009 film)
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Up in the Air (2009 film) / Production
caption_attribution_description: English: Walter Kirn joins the show to talk about his new book, Blood Will Out (Liveright Press), chronicling Kirn's friendship with the con artist/sociopath known as Clark Rockefeller.
context_page_description: Up in the Air is a 2009 American comedy-drama film directed by Jason Reitman and written by Reitman and Sheldon Turner, based on the 2001 novel of the same name by Walter Kirn. The story is centered on corporate "downsizer" Ryan Bingham and his travels. Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, and Danny McBride also star. Filming was primarily in St. Louis, Missouri, which substituted for a number of other cities. Several scenes were filmed in Detroit, Omaha, Las Vegas and Miami.
  Reitman promoted Up in the Air with personal appearances at film festivals and other showings, starting with the Telluride Film Festival on September 5, 2009. The Los Angeles premiere was at the Mann Village Theater on November 30, 2009. Paramount scheduled a limited North American release on December 4, 2009, broadening the release on December 11, 2009, with a wide release on December 23, 2009.
  The film was met with critical acclaim, for Reitman's screenplay and the performances by Clooney, Farmiga and Kendrick. National Board of Review and the Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association named Up in the Air the Best Picture of 2009.
caption: Author Walter Kirn in 2015
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