Up in the Air

Cast
George Clooney
Vera Farmiga
Anna Kendrick
Melanie Lynskey
Jason Bateman
Screenwriters
Jason Reitman
Sheldon Turner
Director
Jason Reitman
Running Time
109 minutes

Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and after he’s met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams. (Paramount Pictures)

Surprisingly sweary and with kind of a mean ending but I enjoyed it a lot. A genuinely funny and intelligent film.

Tom Brooks’ list of the top ten films of 2009

Video link for top 5.

Ten
The Informant

Nine
Inglourious Basterds

Eight
The Messenger

Seven
Up

Six
The Hurt Locker

Five
District 9

Four
Lebanon

Three
Prescious

Two
Avatar

One
Up in the Air

Did You Hear About The Morgans?

Cast
Hugh Grant
Sarah Jessica Parker
Sam Elliot
Mary Steenburgen
Elisabeth Moss
Michael Kelly
Wilford Brimley
Screenwriter
Marc Lawrence
Director
Marc Lawrence
Running Time
103 minutes

The comedy Did You Hear About the Morgans? follows a highly successful Manhattan couple, Meryl and Paul Morgan, whose almost-perfect lives have only one notable failure – their dissolving marriage. But the turmoil of their romantic lives is nothing compared to what they are about to experience: they witness a murder and become targets of a contract killer. The Feds, protecting their witnesses, whisk away the Morgans from their beloved New York to a tiny town in Wyoming, and a relationship that was on the rocks threatens to end completely in the Rockies... unless, in their new BlackBerry-free lives, the Morgans can slow down the pace and rekindle the passion. (Sony Pictures)

In equal measure amiable and dull.