Thank You For Smoking

Teaser Trailer for Jason Reitman’s UP IN THE AIR Starring George Clooney

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: September 9th, 2009 at 7:57 am

It’s not really fair to call this a teaser because it’s lengthy and does a fantastic job of selling the film’s over-arching theme.  Clooney’s voice-over is well-written and (no surprise) well-delivered.  My problem is whether or not Reitman can make a film that feels fresher and deeper than the theme of “Working hard for a successful career and material rewards at the expense of personal relationships,” which we’ve seen many times before.  But since Reitman directed “Thank You for Smoking” and “Juno” (the latter a film which received some backlash but more for Diablo Cody’s script because it’s stylized and she’s a woman so why should she get to write catchy dialogue?) and has George Clooney as the lead, I’m not too worried.

Hit the jump for the “teaser” trailer and a brief plot synopsis.  “Up in the Air” is currently slated to hit theatres on December 4^th.

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