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Pete Docter · 2009 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

Served an eviction notice from the house he built with his wife, a widowed balloon salesman rigs thousands of helium balloons to the chimney and steers it toward the South American falls the two of them always meant to see. A boy scout is on the porch when it lifts off, and the plateau they come down on turns out to be already occupied by an explorer who never went home. Pixar's tenth feature opened the Cannes festival, the first animated film to do so, and took the Academy Award for animated feature.

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Attributes

Genre
AdventureFantasy
Theme
Death & MortalityMemory & TimeJourney & QuestFellowship
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
MentorExplorerAlly / Companion
Plot structure
The QuestVoyage and Return
Symbol / motif
The HouseWings / FlightThe Journey
Conflict
vs Selfvs Person
Mode / tone
AdventureElegiac
Culture / tradition
Modern / American

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