A man down on his luck had his whole life turned around recently by, of all things, a George Clooney movie.
Kevin Renick had lost his job and his income and had barely enough money to buy food when he wrote a song about his plight - and it became part the soundtrack for Clooney's new movie Up In the Air.
It struck a chord because both the song and the movie are by coincidence called the same thing. And both are about becoming suddenly jobless in this year's American recession.
Watch the full video of Mr Renick’s flight from joblessness.
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