UP

The tale of a couple who stay madly in love through the decades concludes with the death of the woman in Pixar's 2009 classic Up, which starts with an emotionally painful moment. Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner) attaches his house to thousands of helium-filled balloons and floats off to an uninhabited section of South America soon after his loving spouse passes away, only to discover too late that he has an uninvited passenger in the form of an enthusiastic 8-year-old child (Jordan Nagai).

Up finds pertinent themes of love, loneliness, and self-sacrifice flowing through its running length, in addition to giving the required thrills – those frightened of heights will stiffen up until the explosive finish. Of course, it wouldn't be a family film without at least one adorable sidekick, and Dug, a happy-go-lucky dog who, along with other (fiercer) dogs, has been fitted with a gadget that allows him to communicate, delivers just that. So it's a movie that goes to the dogs in the end, but it still gets a thumbs up from me.

Detailed information:

Release date: May 29, 2009 (United States)
Directors: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson
Gross revenue: $735.10 million
Story by: Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy

Link to watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1049413