Hanging Up (2000)

A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.

Director:

Diane Keaton

Writers:

Delia Ephron (book), Delia Ephron (screenplay)

Stars:

Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow

2 wins & 1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Meg Ryan	...	Eve
Diane Keaton	...	Georgia
Lisa Kudrow	...	Maddy
Walter Matthau	...	Lou
Adam Arkin	...	Joe
Shaun Duke	...	Omar Kunundar (as Duke Moosekian)
Ann Bortolotti	...	Ogmed Kunundar
Cloris Leachman	...	Pat
Maree Cheatham	...	Angie
Myndy Crist	...	Dr. Kelly
Libby Hudson Lydecker	...	Georgia's Assistant (as Libby Hudson)
Jesse James	...	Jesse
Edie McClurg	...	Esther
Tracee Ellis Ross	...	Kim
Celia Weston	...	Madge Turner

Storyline

Georgia Mozell, Eve Marks and Maddy Mozell are adult sisters. Georgia is the editor of her own wildly successful self-titled women's magazine. She strives for publicity at any cost. Party planner Eve is the mother hen of the group, not only of her own family, but also of her siblings and father as their mother, Pat, not only emotionally left their father when they divorced, but her daughters as well. And Maddy is a vacuous soap opera actress who has always struggled for her own identity. Despite being as busy with her own life as the others, Eve is the only one of the three who deals with the long term hospitalization of their cantankerous seventy-nine year old father, Lou Mozell, when he enters the early stages of dementia, and the associated outcomes of that hospitalization. Eve's caring for Lou is despite an especially hurtful incident with him seven years earlier. As the emotional aspect of looking after Lou becomes more and more stressful, Eve has to figure out how to maintain ...

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Plot Keywords:

actress | thanksgiving | man in a coma | year 1993 | businesswoman | 

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Taglines:

Every family has a few hang-ups.

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Genres:

Comedy | Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for language and some sex-related material

Did You Know?

Trivia

This is the 2nd movie Meg Ryan and Walter Matthau starred in together. The first was I.Q. in 1994.

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Goofs

There is no second floor to the Richard M. Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, California.

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Quotes

Lou Mozell: You know, that I actually met a girl by the name of Moo Goo Gai Pan? That was her last name. Her first name was Freida. Freida Moo Goo Gai Pan. She was half-Jewish, half-Chinese. A lot of people called her the Ori-Yenta.

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Alternate Versions

A flashback scene set in a New York City Chinese restaurant in the early 1990s where the sisters have a dinner with their father that ends in disaster was filmed, but ultimately cut from the final film.

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Connections

Features The Jeffersons (1975)

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Soundtracks

Junk
Written and Performed by Paul McCartney
Courtesy of MPL Communications, Inc.
Under license to Capital Records, Inc./EMI Records Ltd.

User Reviews

basic but amusing

OK, so, a lot of people are saying that they were disappointed, that it looked funny but wasn't, that there was more drama than comedy etc etc etc. BUT, I just have to point out, this movie isn't just listed as a COMEDY but also as a DRAMA, therefore, it is to be expected that there is a fair bit of drama involved in this movie. Just a forewarning: if you don't like flashbacks, don't watch this flick, it's full of 'em! This movie really amused me, and if you get it on DVD, watch the cutouts! I laughed myself silly.. the cast of this movie is brilliant (even if you're like me, and aren't the biggest fan of Diane Keaton). You have Meg Ryan, with another of her light comedies, Lisa Kudrow with another ditzy roll (lol), Diane Keaton in a role I would expect her to play in a comedy/drama and Walter Matthau, who always puts in a very amusing performance.

It's a fun, light comedic/dramatic flick, full of flashbacks, with hilarious cutouts. I'd recommend it to anyone.. Have fun :-P

Details

Country:

Germany USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

18 February 2000 (USA)

Also Known As:

Hanging Up

Filming Locations:

1261 Angelo Drive, Beverly Hills, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$60,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$13,567,978, 20 February 2000

Gross USA:

$36,050,230

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$51,880,044

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures, Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Company Medien KG, Laurence Mark Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

94 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1