Grumpy old man Carl Fredricksen is an unlikely cartoon hero — his wife has just died, developers want to tear down his house, and after he beats one of the developers with his cane, a court order is about to send him to a nursing home.
“Up” is a cartoon that tackles some grown-up themes: love, loss, change, the evaluation of how you’ve lived your life.
Carl decides late in life to take his childhood sweetheart, Ellie, on an adventure trip, but she dies before they can use the tickets. The grieving widower decides to go it alone by floating his house off to South America with helium balloons. Of course, mayhem and hilarity ensue, and in the end, we learn something about what really matters.
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