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
Errors in geography:
The bar where Ryan first meets Alex is supposed to be in a Dallas airport hotel, but there is a full size Houston Oilers football helmet prominently on display instead of a Dallas Cowboys helmet. Also, the Houston Oilers played their last game in 1996 before the franchise moved to Tennessee, making the helmet even more out of place.
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