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2000 Certificate 15
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Daddy's favorite daughter is over-extended in this Diane Keaton-directed comedy about loving, laughing, and learning to let go. Meg Ryan plays party-planner Eve, a streched-too-thin mother, wife, sister, and dutiful daughter. Eve's harried life has become even more complicated by her reliance on modern technology--her cell .. Read more

Starring Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton, Lisa Kudrow, Walter Matthau
Director Diane Keaton
Genres Comedy

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Daddy's favorite daughter is over-extended in this Diane Keaton-directed comedy about loving, laughing, and learning to let go. Meg Ryan plays party-planner Eve, a streched-too-thin mother, wife, sister, and dutiful daughter. Eve's harried life has become even more complicated by her reliance on modern technology--her cell phone, fax machine, lap top, and answering machine assist in tying up her already busy life. Walter Matthau is her ailing 79-year-old father, Lou, a curmudgeonly grouch who is admitted into the hospital with memory loss. Eve tries to recruit help with her father from her two neglectful sisters: Georgia (Diane Keaton), a New York publishing tycoon who runs her own magazine, the self-titled "Georgia," and baby sister Maddy (Lisa Kudrow), a self-involved soap opera actress. Hoping to please her father, Eve also tries to reach out to her mother (Cloris Leachman) who abandoned the family years earlier. But finally Eve must learn to "hang up" on the pressures, obligations, and responsibilities of being a do-it-all woman. Real-life sisters Nora and Delia Ephron co-wrote the screenplay to HANGING UP, which was adapted from Delia Ephron's book. HANGING UP was Walter Matthau's last film before his death in 2000.

Starring Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton, Lisa Kudrow, Walter Matthau, Adam Arkin, Cloris Leachman, Maree Cheatham
Director Diane Keaton
Studio SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time DVD: 1 hr 31 mins
Certificate Certificate 15
Genres Comedy
Language DVD: English
Dubbed German
Subtitles DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish, Turkish
Released DVD: 27 Nov 2000
Production year: 2000
Format DVD

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    Delia Ephron's novel about three sisters dealing with their senile father (Walter Matthau) is translated to the screen by director Diane Keaton, who also stars as the eldest sibling. However, Keaton and her co-star Lisa Kudrow get very little screen time compared to Meg Ryan, the daughter who is usually responsible for dear old dad. The trio spend little time together, so the film ends up a lifeless and clichéd tale about Ryan's relationship with Matthau. The latter gets some good lines, but you'll yearn for more scenes like the deliciously bitchy one in which the girls turn on each other and blame one another for everything that's gone wrong in their lives.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006

  • Nora Ephron helped pen this hideously synthetic film version of her sister Delia's novel, at least partly based on the... read more on Time Out

    • Time Out
    • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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  • 7 out of 8 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Slamming the phone down on

    I was really excited when I heard about this film. A 'chick-flick' starring Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton & Lisa Kudrow, this seemed like the perfect film to watch snuggled under the duvet with a box of chocolates. Unfortunately the film was so dire I even considered throwing my chocolates at the TV. This is a shameful waste of talent in a story so rubbish I can't even bring myself to describe it. Avoid at all costs unless you have a desire to watch fantastic actresses stumble through a plot so dull that you'll want to strangle yourself with your very own phone wire.

      • HBA from Berkshire, UK
      • Posted 09 Jul 2004 12:41

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  • 2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 4 stars

    Don't Hang Up

    But DO ignore the published reviews. Hanging Up would never have won Oscars or Palme's, but not every film sets out to do so. This is a simple paean to the joy of life, family and love, three things that no-one can do without in one form or another. It's well acted, well scripted (it's been 'Ephronised') and Matthau is seriously funny and sad at the same time. Suspend your ability to be cynical for just a couple of hours and embrace a film that wants nothing more than to entertain and say 'Hey, some of this will be relevant to you.' Don't you sometimes yearn for the simple messages in life? Here they are, wrapped up in 2 hours with a cellphone ribbon. This review is being recorded for your own security...

      • Oeufman from Essex
      • Posted 21 Jul 2004 12:55

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