Up is an upcoming computer-animated 3-D film produced by Pixar Animation Studios.

It will be distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, and is scheduled for release on May 29, 2009 in North America and October 16, 2009 in the United Kingdom.

The film is directed by Pete Docter (Monsters, Inc.) and features the voices of Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer, and Jordan Nagai.

Plot
Carl Fredricksen (Edward Asner) is a retired 78-year-old balloon salesman. When Carl was a child, he met and eventually married a girl named Ellie who grew up in a small midwestern town.

Ellie always dreamed of visiting South America, but she died before she got a chance. Now, when developers threaten to move him into an assisted living home, Carl decides to fulfill his promise to Ellie.

To accomplish this, he uses 10,000 balloons to make the house fly—but unwittingly takes a chubby eight-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell with him. The two opposites match up for thrilling adventures as they encounter wild terrain, unexpected foes, and all the terrifying creatures that wait in the Venezuelan jungle.

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Directed by: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson (co-director)
Produced by Jonas Rivera
Written by
Bob Peterson
Ronnie del Carmen
Thomas McCarthy (uncredited)

Cast and characters
* Edward Asner as Carl Fredricksen. Docter and Rivera noted Asner’s television alter-ego Lou Grant had been helpful in writing for Carl, because it guided them in balancing likeable and unlikeable aspects of the curmudgeonly character.
* Jordan Nagai as Russell, the Wilderness Explorer stowaway on Carl’s flying house.[6] He accompanies Carl in order to earn his “assisting the elderly” badge: the only one he doesn’t have.
* Bob Peterson as Dug, a dog with a collar that translates his thoughts into comical sounding English.
* Kevin, a large tropical bird. Russell gives the bird a male name although Kevin is actually a girl.
* Christopher Plummer as Charles F. Muntz, the villain. He was an adventurer Carl and his wife admired when they were children.
* Bob Peterson also voices Alpha, a talking Doberman Pinscher belonging to Muntz.
* Delroy Lindo as Beta, Muntz’s talking Rottweiler.
* Jerome Ranft as Gamma, Muntz’s talking Bulldog.
* John Ratzenberger as Tom, a construction worker.
* Elizabeth Docter as Ellie, Carl’s wife. Elizabeth is the director’s daughter.

Music by Michael Giacchino
Studio Pixar Animation Studios
Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)
May 29, 2009 (North America)
June 4, 2009 (Australia)
October 16, 2009 (United Kingdom)
Running time 104 min
Country United States
Language English
Budget $175 million

Official Website: www.disney.go.com