Up is a 2009 American animated adventure comedy-drama film directed by Pete Docter and written by Bob Peterson and Docter. Produced by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures, the film centers on Carl Fredricksen, an elderly widower who attaches numerous helium balloons to his house to travel to South America with youngster Russell in order to fulfill a promise made to his late wife. Along the way, they befriend a talking dog and an exotic bird while encountering Carl's childhood idol Charles Muntz, who has sinister plans to capture the bird.