A feisty septuagenarian teams with a fearless wilderness ranger to do battle with a vicious band of beasts & villains in this computer-animated adventure scripted by Pixar veteran Bob Peterson & co-directed by Peterson & MONSTERS, INC. director Peter Docter. Carl Fredricksen is a 78-year-old balloon salesman. His entire life, Carl has longed to wander the wilds of South America. Then, one day, the irascible senior citizen shocks his neighbours by tying thousands of balloons to his home & finally taking flight. But Carl isnt alone on his once-in-a-lifetime journey, because stowed away on his front porch is an excitable eight-year-old wilderness explorer named Russell. Later, as the house touches down on the worlds second largest continent, Carl & his unlikely travelling companion step outside to discover that not only is their new front lawn considerably larger, but that the predators therein are much more ferocious than anything they ever faced back home.