Ok, so the basic synopsis of the film is the central charcter Ryan (George Clooney) travels endlessly across the country making people redundant for a living. Ryan has no close family connections or friend's back home and has stuctured his life this way deliberately. A threat to Ryan's carefully constructed lifestyle comes in the form of a super smart, precosious new graduate, Natalie (Anna Kendrick). Natalie proceeds to turn Ryan's life upside down by entering his company and threatening to change the way business is conducted from face-to-face, to a new system conducted via the web. What will Ryan do if he doesn't have to travel the nation 362 days of the year! Does this men he will have to face the reality of his lonely life? Enter Alex(actress Vera Famiga), a like-minded individual, who too travels frequently. Ryan unexpectedly begins to have feelings for Alex and we see the desire for a less transient life emerge. This is highlighted in a scene when he meets his sister's fiancee (the psycho ex-girlfriend of Charlie Sheen's character in Two and a Half Men) for the first time and attends their wedding with Alex who by now has become possible girlfriend/partner material.
As the story begins to unravel we become concerned for the plight of Ryan and then just as abrubtly the story ends. Ryan is forced out into the air to continue his (now) unfullfilling life and career. We begin to feel a real sense of saddness for his situation. The tale ends with no sense of hope for Ryan and the revelation from his would be "partner/girlfirend" seems unrealistic and unecessary.
This film only scores points because "The handsome" Mr George Clooney stars in it!
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