12-31-2010, 04:23 PM
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The Reforms
Location: Rarely, if ever, here or there, but always in transition
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What's Up? [* -]
Walt Disney Pictures & Pixar Animation Studios - Up (2009)
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Up is a 2009 computer-animated comedy-adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios, distributed by Walt Disney Pictures
and presented in Disney Digital 3-D. The film premiered on May 29, 2009 in North America and opened the 2009 Cannes Film Festival,
becoming the first animated or 3D film to do so.
Up is director Pete Docter's second feature-length film, after Monsters, Inc., and features the voices of Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer,
Bob Peterson, and Jordan Nagai. It is Pixar's tenth feature film and the studio's first to be presented in Disney Digital 3-D, and is accompanied
in theaters by the short film Partly Cloudy.
The film centers around an elderly widower named Carl Fredricksen and an earnest young Wilderness Explorer named Russell who fly to South
America in a house suspended by helium balloons. The film has received overwhelmingly positive reviews, with a rating of 98% on Rotten Tomatoes
(the best reviewed film of 2009 on the site), and grossed over $731 million worldwide, making it Pixar's second-most commercially successful film, behind Finding Nemo.
Up won Golden Globe Awards for Best Animated Feature Film and Best Original Score from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. More recently,
the film received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, making Up only the second animated film in history to receive such a nomination,
following Beauty and the Beast in 1991. It was awarded with two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score in 2010.
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