Up

Year:

2009

Duration:

96 min

Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Drama | Family

IMDB rate:

8.3

Director:

Pete Docter

Awards:

Won 2 Oscars. Another 74 wins & 56 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 2009-05-29

Earnings

Budget: $175,000,000

Opening Weekend: $68,108,790 (USA) (31 May 2009)

Gross: $293,004,164 (USA) (5 November 2009)

Cast

Actor

Character

Jordan Nagai

Up

Edward Asner

Carl Fredricksen

Christopher Plummer

Charles Muntz

Bob Peterson

Dug

Delroy Lindo

Beta

Jerome Ranft

Gamma

John Ratzenberger

Construction Foreman Tom

David Kaye

Newsreel Announcer (voice)

Elie Docter

Young Ellie

Jeremy Leary

Young Carl

Mickie McGowan

Police Officer Edith

Danny Mann

Construction Worker Steve

Donald Fullilove

Nurse George

Jess Harnell

Nurse AJ

Josh Cooley

Omega

Pete Docter

Campmaster Strauch

Mark Andrews

Additional Voices (voice)

Bob Bergen

Additional Voices (voice)

Brenda Chapman

Additional Voices (voice)

Emma Coats

Additional Voices (voice)

John Cygan

Additional Voices (voice)

Paul Eiding

Additional Voices (voice)

Tony Fucile

Additional Voices (voice)

Teresa Ganzel

Additional Voices (voice)

Sherry Lynn

Additional Voices (voice)

Laraine Newman

Additional Voices (voice)

Teddy Newton

Additional Voices (voice)

Jeff Pidgeon

Additional Voices (voice)

Valerie LaPointe

Additional Voices (voice)

Jan Rabson

Additional Voices (voice)

Bob Scott

Additional Voices (voice)

Sebastian Warholm

Russell

Did you know?

Trivia

Dug's 'point' pose, where his entire tail, back, and head is in a perfectly straight line, is an homage to the identical pose that Mickey's dog Pluto often makes. Dug also shares a similar color scheme to Pluto.

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The house is based on the real life Edith Macefield house in the Seattle suburb of Ballard, Washington. Edith fought building developers and her little house still stands in the center of a large development known as the Ballard Blocks.

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Carl's summons notice has the number 94070 - the postcode of San Carlos, where producer Brad Lewis was once the mayor.

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Goofs

In the French version of the film (with possibly analogous errors in other language versions), during the scene at the beginning when Young Ellie is showing Young Carl her scrapbook, a close-up of one of the pages says in French "TRUCS A FAIRE" but when other side shots are shown, the book clearly says in English "THINGS TO DO".

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In the scene where Carl and Ellie paint the mailbox it can be seen that Carl's hand spoils the paint with his hands paint making a mark on the mailbox to which Ellie reciprocates and make a mark of her hand. In the later scenes its found that mark made by Ellie is rotated clockwise.

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When Carl and Russell first stop the house from drifting off without them, Russell does not have his backpack and Carl does not have his cane. However, right before the house hits the ground, while they are waiting on the porch, Russell is wearing his backpack and Carl has his cane. Everything is scattered from the impact and Carl and Russell chase the house and stop it right before the cliff. They simply backtracked to reclaim their belongings.

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Quotes

Russell: I've never been in a floating house before.

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Dug: I was hiding under your porch because I love you.

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Alpha: Now, you must wear the cone of shame.

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Faq

Q

How is it that Carl and Muntz look about the same age when they meet? Shouldn't Muntz be dead by then?

A

The film skirts around this by never actually saying how old Muntz was when he set off on his journey. He could have been in his early to late 20s or his early 30s. Since Carl was around 10 at the time he saw the news reel of Muntz, and he is apparently 78 at the time he meets Muntz, that means 68 years have passed, meaning Muntz would be in his 90s.

Q

Is "Up" based on a book?

A

No. Up is a Pixar-animated film, based on an idea by director Pete Docter and a screenplay co-written by co-director Bob Peterson, screenwriter Thomas McCarthy, and animation storyboarder Ronnie del Carmen.

Q

How does Russell end up on Carl's porch after his house takes off?

A

Russell tells Carl that he was searching for the Snipe under his porch. Later in the movie, after the house is relaunched, Dug also knocks at the door and says that he was hiding under the porch when it took off. Apparently, the porch has a floor underneath which goes with the house when it is airborne. Another possibility is that both Russell and Dug hang on to the underside of the porch when it takes off and then climb up onto the porch in order to get inside the house. In the short film "George & A.J." an attempt is made to handwave this by showing Russell bracing himself underneath the house as it takes off.

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