***WINNER – Best Animated Feature Film – 2010 Academy Awards®
***WINNER – Best Original Score – 2010 Academy Awards®
***NOMINEE – Best Motion Picture – 2010 Academy Awards®
This film is a part of our Popcorn Flicks in the Park series, which takes place in Central Park, Winter Park once a month and is FREE and open to the public! These films are presented with open captions.
Carl Fredricksen (Edward Asner), a retired balloon salesman, is part rascal, part dreamer and ready for his last chance at high-flying excitement. Tying thousands of balloons to his house, Carl sets off to the lost world of his childhood dreams. But unbeknownst to Carl, Russell, an overeager 8-year-old Wildnerness Explorer who has never ventured beyond his backyard, is in the wrong place at the wrong time…Carl’s front porch. The world’s most unlikely duo reach new heights and meet fantastic friends like Dug, a dog with a special collar that allows him to speak, and Kevin, a rare 13-foot tall flightless bird. Stuck together in the wilds of the jungle, Carl realizes that sometimes life’s biggest adventures aren’t the ones you set out to have.
2009, 96 minutes, USA, Directed by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Rated PG
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“A breathtaking ride into the realm of pure imagination.”
– Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE -
“Winsome, touching and arguably the funniest Pixar effort ever, the gorgeously rendered, high-flying adventure is a tidy 90-minute distillation of all the signature touches that came before it.”
– Michael Rechshaffen, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER -
“Rarely has any film, let alone an animated one powered by the logic of dream and fantasy, been able to move so successfully -- and so effortlessly -- through so many different kinds of cinematic territory.”
– Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES -
“The exhilarating film pays tribute to Buster Keaton's "The Balloonatic" by way of its slapstick, and to Hayao Miyazaki's "Howl's Moving Castle" by way of its watercolor palette and traveling domicile.”
– Carrie Rickey, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER
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