Up Opens the Cannes Film Festival

The 2009 Cannes Festival opening film today is the much-anticipated Disney Pixar film, "Up," directed by Pete Docter and featuring the voices of Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer and John Ratzenberger.

The official synopsis:

From Disney•Pixar comes UP, a comedy adventure about 78-year-old balloon salesman Carl Fredricksen, who finally fulfills his lifelong dream of a great adventure when he ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away to the wilds of South America. But he discovers all too late that his biggest nightmare has stowed away on the trip: an overly optimistic 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell. From the Academy Award®-nominated director Pete Docter (“Monsters, Inc.”), Disney•Pixar’s UP invites you on a hilarious journey into a lost world, with the least likely duo on Earth.

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