Up Disney Wiki FANDOM powered by Wikia. Up. Written by. Bob Peterson Story and ScreenplayPete Docter Story and ScreenplayTom Mc. Carthy StoryCinematography by. Patrick Lin. Jean Claudie Kalache. Gross revenue7. 31,3. Plot. At eight years old, Carl Fredricksen was a fan of Charles F. Muntz, who piloted his own selfmade dirigible, Spirit of Adventure. One day, while running down. SCARFACE 1983 AL PACINO, MICHELE PFEIFFER. SUBWAY Original Movie Poster 46 x 59. Linen Backed Ready for Framing EXNM C8C9 3595. Up is a 2. 00. 9 American 3. D computer animated comedy adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and directed by Pete Docter. It is the tenth animated feature film produced by Pixar Animation Studios. The film centers on an elderly widower named Carl Fredricksen voiced by Edward Asner and an earnest young Wilderness Explorer named Russell Jordan Nagai. By tying thousands of balloons to his home, 7. Carl sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America and to complete a promise made to his childhood sweetheart and beloved wife, Ellie. The film was co directed by Bob Peterson, with music composed by Michael Giacchino. It was the second film, after Finding Nemo, to be released in May. Docter began working on the story in 2. He and eleven other Pixar artists spent three days in Venezuela gathering research and inspiration. The designs of the characters were caricatured and stylized considerably, and animators were challenged with creating realistic cloth. The floating house is attached by a varying number between 1. Blockbuster Movies Wrinkles ' title='2010 Blockbuster Movies Wrinkles ' />Up was Pixars first film to be presented in Disney Digital 3 D. Up was released in May 2. Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first animated and 3. D film to do so. The film became a great financial success, accumulating over 7. Up received critical acclaim, with most reviewers commending the humor and heart of the film. Edward Asner was praised for his portrayal of Carl, and a montage of Carl and his wife Ellie aging together was widely lauded. The film received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, making it the second animated film in history to receive such a nomination, following Beauty and the Beast 1. Plot. At eight years old, Carl Fredricksen was a fan of Charles F. Muntz, who piloted his own self made dirigible, Spirit of Adventure. One day, while running down a sidewalk, pretending to pilot his balloon a regular blue balloon with the words Spirit of Adventure written on the side, Carl hears a voice coming from a dilapidated house. Curious, Carl enters the house and meets Ellie, a young girl and fellow fan of Muntz, and they become close friends almost instantly. Ellies startling introduction causes Carl to release his balloon, which gets stuck in the attic. With Ellies encouragement, he tries to get it back by crossing a single wooden plank across the second floor of the house. However, the wooden plank breaks and Carl ends up breaking his arm. Ellie visits him at his bedroom later that night returning his balloon to him and shows Carl her secret Adventure Book. She also tells Carl of her plans to go to Paradise Falls, the same place Muntz had visited on his recent expedition to capture an exotic creature. Years later, Carl marries Ellie and they begin rebuilding the old house, making it their home. Ellie becomes a tour guide for a zoo and Carl becomes a balloon salesman, working side by side. They go through many stages of their life together and dream of going to Paradise Falls in South America. So they decided to save up some money, but unforeseen events a tire blows out, Carl breaks his leg, a tree crashes into the house and breaks the roof during a storm force them to use the money they had been saving. Carl and Ellie grow old together, working at a zoo selling balloons and giving tours respectively. While cleaning the house, Carl notices the picture of their house perched at the top of Paradise Falls, after tucking the savings jar away and leaving the trip out of mind. Carl then goes to buy tickets to Paradise Falls presumably with retirement money. He then takes Ellie on a picnic, bringing the tickets as a surprise for her. While climbing up the hill where they had spent so much time before, Ellies old age begins to catch up to her, and she stumbles over. Before long, she dies of old age in the hospital. Heartbroken and alone, Carl returns to his house after attending Ellies funeral. In the present, Carl is old and grumpy. He still lives in his same old house, which he feels is the thing thats keeping Ellie close to him, but surrounding it is a huge city landscape new buildings are coming up all around Carls property. A corporation is trying to move him, which would break what he had promised. He then ends up in a tussle with a construction worker over his broken mailbox and is forced by a court order to move into a retirement home. He then realizes this would be his last chance to fulfill that promise. The next morning, two nurses, A. J. and George, from the Shady Oaks Retirement Village come to pick up Carl. He comes out, but tells the workers that before he leaves, he wants to say one last goodbye to the old place. They oblige and walk back towards the van. Suddenly, thousands and thousands of balloons appear from behind the house. The house is ripped from its foundation and carried into the sky. Passersby look in shock to see the flying house. Carl proceeds to extend shower curtains and blankets from the side of the house, as rudders. Just when he lies down in his chair after setting his course for South America, he hears a knock at his door its Russell, a young Wilderness Explorer who had pestered Carl the day before in an attempt to earn his final merit badge for assisting the elderly and become a Senior Wilderness Explorer. He was looking for a creature named a snipe that Carl had made up to get him to leave when he accidentally got caught onto the house as it floated away. Carl lets him come inside, and he starts obnoxiously looking around the house. Cult Comedy Movies Everyone`S Hero there. Carl decides to abort his mission and cut balloons from his fireplace to land the house. However, they enter a fierce thunderstorm, tossing the house through the clouds. Carl gathered all his belongings, tied them down, and eventually passed out from exhaustion. Russell wakes Carl up to tell him that he steered the house and that they were in South America, using a GPS. Soon after, Russell accidentally tosses said GPS out the window. Carl decides to land the house and try to send Russell home. They go out to the front porch Carl expects the house to take several hours to reach the ground, but soon finds that they are much closer to the ground than he thought. The house suddenly hits the ground, tossing Carl and Russell from the porch. Carl manages to grab onto a dangling hose to stop the house from floating away, and Russell grabs onto Carls leg, further weighing the house down. Coated in fog, they are dragged to the edge of a seemingly endless cliff. Russell pulls Carl and the house back to safety soon after. The fog clears and Carl begins to look around at the extraordinary landscape. He soon notices the astonishing view of Paradise Falls they made it. Carl orders Russell to climb up the hose to the house, and hoist him up. However, Russell barely makes it up the hose at all, and the option of getting up to the house is thrown out. Carl becomes outraged, but Russell comes up with the bright idea to walk the house to the falls. Once theyre in the jungle, Russell needs a bathroom break. He finds what he thinks are snipe tracks and encounters a giant, chocolate loving bird. He brings it back to Carl who is absolutely terrified. Though friendly with Russell, the bird is obnoxious towards Carl. Russell becomes attached and names it Kevin, but Carl just wants to move on. Russell leaves a trail of chocolate for Kevin to follow. Soon, Carl and Russell find themselves in a strange rocky area. Soon, they come across a lone dog with a strange collar. Carl calls for its owner, but Russell just plays with it. Soon, it begins to speak to them. The dog introduces himself as Dug. He says that the collar which allows him to speak was made by his good and smart master.