Hanging Up (2000)

Release date: 2000-02-18
Country: Germany|USA
Language: English
Director: Diane Keaton
Production Co: Columbia Pictures, Global Entertainment Productions GmbH & Company Medien KG, Laurence Mark Productions
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Rating: 4.9/10
Length: 1h 34min

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 ...

Plot Keywords

actress, death of father, coma, father daughter relationship, old age, hospital, sister sister relationship, family relationships, female protagonist, thanksgiving, year 1993, businesswoman, told in flashback, falling out of bed, phone book, dressing gown, christmas tree, female lead, directed by co star, convertible

Short Review

Three of Hollywood's most beautiful and talented actresses, Ryan, Keaton, and Kudrow, are totally wasted in this shamelessly sappy meller that bears the schmaltzy sensibility of Nora Ephorn, its inept producer and co-scripter even though Keaton is helmer