Up ( 2009 Film )

Directed by	Pete Docter Co-Director: Bob Peterson
Produced by	Jonas Rivera Executive Producers: John Lasseter Andrew Stanton
Screenplay by	Bob Peterson Pete Docter
Story by	Pete Docter Bob Peterson Thomas McCarthy
Starring	Edward Asner Christopher Plummer Jordan Nagai Bob Peterson
Music by	Michael Giacchino
Editing by	Kevin Nolting
Studio	Pixar Animation Studios
Distributed by	Walt Disney Pictures
Release date(s)	May 29, 2009 (2009-05-29)
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$175 million
Gross revenue	$731,342,744

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 and 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 and DVD releases by the short film Partly Cloudy.
The film centers on 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 wide-released film of 2009 on the site), and grossed over $731 million worldwide It was awarded the Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score in 2010.