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  • Genre: Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy
  • Release Date: 05/29/2009
  • Running Time: 96 mins
  • Director: Pete Docter
  • Cast: Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger, Delroy Lindo, Jordan Nagai
  • Producer: Jonas Rivera
  • Writer: Bob Peterson
  • Distributor: Walt Disney Pictures
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Box Office

  1. Funny People, 23.4 mil, 0.0 mil
  2. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 17.7 mil, 255.5 mil
  3. G-Force, 17.1 mil, 66.5 mil
  4. The Ugly Truth, 13.0 mil, 54.5 mil
  5. Aliens in the Attic, 7.8 mil, 0.0 mil
  6. Orphan, 7.2 mil, 26.8 mil
  7. Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, 5.3 mil, 181.8 mil
  8. The Hangover, 5.1 mil, 255.8 mil
  9. The Proposal, 4.8 mil, 148.9 mil
  10. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, 4.6 mil, 388.1 mil
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

Up

First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old coot who, with the help of a roly-poly Boy Scout, finds his inner child during a series of magical adventures experienced from the front porch of a dilapidated manse held aloft by hundreds of helium-filled balloons. Such, of course, is the perception advanced by promotional materials, which sell short the latest Pixar picture and can�t prepare you for the emotional punch of its first few minutes, when it presents the most heartfelt�the most sincere�love story in recent memory: the love between a boy and a girl, who become a man and a woman, who become a husband and a wife, who become a widower and a memory that haunts the rest of what follows. Rest assured, it gets funny. And thrilling, too, as the third act takes place almost entirely in the sky, atop a mammoth zeppelin piloted by a hero-turned-villain. But despite its title, Up is decidedly earthbound: The elderly Carl (voiced by Ed Asner) spends almost the entire movie schlepping his house across the South American landscape his wife had always hoped to visit. Joined by a young boy (Jordan Nagai) in need of company, too, Carl�s literally tethered to a memory, an anchor with a garden hose wrapped around his torso to keep his home from floating away. (Note: Do not see Up in 3-D. It�s inessential to the story and altogether distracting.) — Robert Wilonsky

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