With a job that has him traveling around the country firing people, Ryan Bingham leads an empty life out of a suitcase, until his company does the unexpected: ground him.
Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just after he's met the frequent-traveler woman of his dreams.
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When Alex is at the Atlanta airport she asks Ryan if he knows a good place for ribs. Ryan tells her to go to Fat Matt's - a real rib shack on Piedmont Avenue. Director Ivan Reitman is a big fan of the restaurant. In return owners Matt and Kelly Harper presented Reitman with a card entitling him to a "lifetime of ribs."
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Goofs
Continuity:
When Ryan gets to the airport with the cardboard cutout of his sister & fiancé, you can see their heads sticking out of the top of his suitcase. But when he goes through security, there is no cardboard cutout sticking out.
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Quotes
[Natalie, on her first outing, walks into the Omaha Airport terminal dragging her slow-moving luggage; Ryan, offended by this, looks at her in frustration]
Natalie Keener:
What? Ryan Bingham:
Follow me.
[later at a store in the terminal, Ryan grabs a new, updated rolling luggage]
Natalie Keener:
I really like my luggage. Ryan Bingham:
That's exactly what it is, it's luggage. You know how much time you lose by checking in? Natalie Keener:
I don't know. Five, ten minutes? Ryan Bingham:
35 minutes a flight. I travel 270 days a year. That's 157 hours. That makes seven days. You're willing to throw away an entire week on that?
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Crazy Credits
Over the end credits, the camera glides over the clouds. Much like the view from a plane.
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"Be Yourself"
(1971) Written by Graham Nash & Terry Reid (as Terence Reid) Performed by Graham Nash Courtesy of Graham Nash By Arrangement with Warner Music Film & TV Licensing
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