Looking for Eric because the film festival was "in receipt of financial support from the State of Israel". The book for "Looking For Eric" is published by Route Publishing. It includes the full screenplay, extra scenes, colour photographs from the film and on set, and introductions from Paul Laverty, Ken Loach, Eric Cantona and production notes from the cast and crew. In July 2014, "Looking for Eric" had an 85% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film won the Magritte Award for Best Film in Coproduction. Roger Ebert, who had praised many of Ken Loach's previous works, gave the film two stars out of
Up in the Air (2009 film) in front of a vast destination board, looking up, and letting go of his luggage. The film has a thematic connection to the children's book "The Velveteen Rabbit", which appears in the film, before the wedding. Reitman noted that Reitman also later stated that "the movie is about the examination of a philosophy. What if you decided to live hub to hub, with nothing, with nobody?". Walter Kirn wrote "Up in the Air", the book on which the film is based, during a snowbound winter on a ranch in rural Montana, while thinking about airports, airplanes and first-class passengers he