Hanging Up: Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow, Walter Matthau, Adam Arkin, Shaun Duke, Ann Bortolotti, Cloris Leachman, Maree Cheatham, Myndy Crist, Libby Hudson, Jesse James, Bill Robinson, Delia Ephron, Diana Pokorny, Laurence Mark, Nora Ephron: Amazon.ca: Video

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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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Hanging Up, Jan 21 2012

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I am a big fan of Meg Ryan and Diane Keaton. When these two women come together in a movie you can bet that it is nothing short of excellent performances. I have already watched this movie twice. This is a nice comedy-drama movie. It makes you laugh at how our lives have become so hectic - juggling with a career and family. The drama that goes on between the sisters are so hilarious. They become envious of each others' lives but in the end they all realize that family is everything.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Better than the critics would have you believe, Jun 16 2004

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Yarby "yarby" (Medina, OH United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hanging Up (DVD)

It seems the critics really hated this movie, but I found the premise one that really deserved addressing. The issue of one child being left to care for an ailing parent, while the other selfish siblings are heard from only if things aren't going their way, is an issue with which I'm sure many people have to deal.

In this movie, Meg Ryan plays the one that gets all the work and none of the credit. She does just a wonderful job, as does Walter Matthau as the father suffering from Alzheimer's disease.

Though I might question some of the casting, based on ages of the actors (17 years difference between the oldest and youngest children!), even Kudrow and Keaton play their parts well...as spoiled, self centered siblings.

I believe what may be a turn-off to some is the presence of TOO MANY obnoxious personalities. The movie would have been much better without the presence of Adam Arkin's or Jesse James's characters...and I probably would have felt more sympathy for Meg Ryan's character as well.

Though the movie was far from perfect, there were some emotional moments in the movie that made up for its shortcomings.

I think the biggest problem with the story line was the unrealistic unity of the sisters at the end of the movie. Self-centered individuals do not suddenly change their ways. Had Meg's character gone on her way, leaving the sisters to SEE the error of their ways, it would have been a much more effective ending.

As for the transfer....as usual, a fantastic anamorphic widescreen picture from Columbia. The special features are not great, but certainly more than one gets on most basic DVD's.

In the end, I would say this is an enjoyable...though not completely fulfilling movie. It could have been better, but it is definitely worth a rental...or if you can find it in the bargain bin as I did....a cheap purchase.

{As an added challenge....see if you can recognize the film error as the cars are racing to the hospital toward the end of the movie.)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Waste Your Time, Jun 20 2000

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Terrible movie coming from three great actresses. Half of the movie is spent with them talking to each other on cell phones. Very boring.

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