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Hannah Takes the Stairs Reviews

2009 Certificate 15 Certificate 15
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Over the course of one hot post-graduate summer, Hannah falls precariously in and out of love. A breaker of hearts and chronically dissatisfied, she finds herself drifting away from her newly unemployed boyfriend and drawn to two of her co-workers, Matt and Paul. "Hannah Takes the Stairs" is a delicate look at friendship, .. Read more

Starring Greta Gerwig, Kent Osborne, Andrew Bujalski, Ry Russo-Young
Director Joe Swanberg
Genres Drama

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  • Critics' reviews of Hannah Takes the Stairs

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  • 2 stars out of

    Realism has rarely felt as mannered as it does in this Chicago-set offering from mumblecore linchpin, Joe... read more on Time Out

    • David Jenkins, 
    • Time Out
  • Most helpful members' reviews (3) of Hannah Takes the Stairs

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  • 15 out of 15 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Painfully boring

    This has to be one of the most boring films I have ever seen.

      • A customer from Wales
  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 0 stars

    Hannah takes the stairs

    Oh my god. I don't usually write reviews but feel compelled to in this instance. I rented this because it is an ICA film and I usually love what they do, ... more

      • Jenny49 from London
  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    hannah up the stairs

    omg how boring yawnnnnnnnnn

      • itsonlyfun from Farnborough
  • Most recent members' reviews (2) of Hannah Takes the Stairs

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  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 0 stars

    Hannah takes the stairs

    Oh my god. I don't usually write reviews but feel compelled to in this instance. I rented this because it is an ICA film and I usually love what they do, ... more

      • Jenny49 from London
  • 15 out of 15 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Painfully boring

    This has to be one of the most boring films I have ever seen.

      • A customer from Wales
  • 15 out of 15 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 1 star

    Painfully boring

    This has to be one of the most boring films I have ever seen.

      • A customer from Wales
  • 5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 0 stars

    Hannah takes the stairs

    Oh my god. I don't usually write reviews but feel compelled to in this instance. I rented this because it is an ICA film and I usually love what they do, ... more

      • Jenny49 from London
  • 1 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 2 stars

    hannah up the stairs

    omg how boring yawnnnnnnnnn

      • itsonlyfun from Farnborough
  • 1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Lovely

    If you liked In Search Of A Midnight Kiss or the book And Then We Came To The End, this is for you. Verite style and dialogue which sounds like how real people ... more

      • matt from shrewsbury, england
  • Rated - 1 star

    pointless

    Facile twitterings,fake-angst and pretentious facile and vacuous quasi philosophical musings from annoying characters - especially the lead.

    people ... more

      • Brain8 from London
  • Rated - 2 stars [Highly rated reviewer]

    Mumblebore

    Generally, I'm well disposed towards mumblecore but this is distinctly poor and very very dull. As a character Hannah is completely unengaging and that'... more

      • Kevin Lloyd from London
  • Rated - 1 star

    Hannah takes the stairs

    Not worth the time or the effort!!!!!

      • Pillay from Woking
  • Rated - 3 stars

    Passable mumblecore effort

    This is a rather slight example of the mumblecore genre, not a patch on the direction of Andrew Bujalski (who acts) or Mark Duplass (who also acts, although ... more

      • A customer from Manchester UK
  • 0 out of 1 person found this review helpful

    Rated - 0 stars

    sorry but no

    The acting in this film is painful, they look like they are just messing about and it is very irritating. The camera is really shaky, not in an arty way but in ... more

      • A customer from St. Neots
  • Critics' reviews

  • 2 stars out of

    Realism has rarely felt as mannered as it does in this Chicago-set offering from mumblecore linchpin, Joe... read more on Time Out

    • David Jenkins, 
    • Time Out
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