Sound familiar to anyone?
http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/node/521
I am seeing this on Monday 19th.


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From the director of Juno, a sharply scripted and crisply directed story set in the world of high flying business travel.

After a very successful sideways step with Juno, Jason Reitman returns to the world of corporate America of his earlier Thank You For Smoking for Up in the Air, adapted by the director from a comic novel by Thumbsucker's Walter Kim. George Clooney is at his smooth, sardonic best as Ryan Bingham, a management consultant specialising in the field of firing people for companies that are downsizing. His work takes him around the country, helping him pursue his private goal of accumulating ten million miles in his frequent flyer account and with it, entry to an elite club. Faced by a threat posed by Natalie (Anna Kendrick), a new recruit with a plan to introduce video links which would effectively ground Bingham and his colleagues, he talks his way into one last round trip, in which he will show Natalie the ropes and persuade his boss to stick with the status quo. This time he has an added incentive, having just met Alex (Vera Farmiga), the beautiful and sassy frequent-traveller of his dreams. With its sharp script and crisp direction, Up in the Air is a pleasurable story of a supremely self-sufficient (or perhaps plain self-centered) lone-wolf having to re-assess his priorities. And while Bingham is the film's driving force, Reitman gives his female characters a welcome depth and complexity too.