Hanging Up

Pros: Flashback sequences are good, Mattau is pretty good, a couple of laughs
Cons: Cliche-ridden, predictable, ponderous, one-dimensional characters

Hanging Up is one of those movies I’d intended to see when it was out in the cinema (mainly because I like all of the main actresses and of course how could anyone not like Walter Matthau?!?) but never got round to. From the trailer ...

Pros: Funny, Good Combination Of Actors.
Cons: Depressing At Some Points.

Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow and Diane Keaton mix so well together that they really could be sisters. Hanging Up is a film that a younger child might not understand. It has very adult issues in it such as there fathers mental illness that eventually kills him....

Pros: Some funny moments.
Cons: The plot is not developed enough. Some great opportunities are missed.

My conversation with Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton, Lisa Kudrow and Delia Ephron about the motion picture, “Hanging Up.”

ME: Ms. Ephron, I really liked your book “Hanging Up,” which was told from the perspective of Eve, the middle of three sisters,...

Pros: realistic, well-acted, funny and sad
Cons: too realistic for me

Hanging Up is a 2000 release from Columbia Tri-Star Pictures. It is rated PG-13 and is 95 minutes long. It is a comedy directed by Diane Keaton and based on the book by Delia Ephron.

Diane Keaton plays...

Pros: At least it's not science fiction
Cons: Awful characters, lame story-line

This has to be the worst movie I've seen for a long time. I hated the characters, who spent most of the 90 minutes of the movie arguing with each other either on the phone or in person. The plot is based around an old man (Walter Matthau) who is dying...

Pros: a great ensemble, it eventually ended
Cons: I finally had the remote to myself and THIS is what I got!

My husband generally controls the remote. This is not really a problem, more often than not we want to watch the same things. However, occasionally there will be a show or movie that he has absolutely no desire to watch.

This was one of...

Pros: It was good to see these actors/actresses together
Cons: Absolutely Boring

With such a loveable cast (Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton, Lisa Kudrow, Walter Matthau), you would figure that this movie would have something good to offer...IT DOESN'T!

Hanging Up, in my opinion, is nothing more than an attempt to get all of us to...

Pros: Meg Ryan
Cons: the crummy writing, directing, and the ending SUCKED

I usually like Meg Ryan's (and Nora Ephron's) films. I LOVED When Harry Met Sally, and thought Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail were cute. When I heard that Diane Keaton and Lisa Kudrow were also in the cast, along with Walter Matthau, I looked...

Pros: funny and heartwarming
Cons: not long enough

Hanging Up is a 2000 release from Columbia Tri-Star Pictures.It is rated PG-13 and is 95 minutes long. This movie is a comedy directed by Diane Keaton and based on the book by Delia Ephron.

The Actors

Meg Ryan plays...

Pros: heartfelt and emotional
Cons: lag times and boring parts

This movie has gotten some pretty bad reviews thus far. I'm not sure if I really enjoyed the movie or that I related so well with it.

First of all, Hanging Up, is a movie about a family dealing with their aging and senile father, played by...

Pros: None
Cons: Foul language, not funny

Worst movie I think I've ever seen! My family thought the same thing. It is not funny, in-fact, it is rather depressing. It is about three sisters (one is an actress-Lisa Kudrow; one has her own magazine-Diane Keaton; and the middle sister is Meg...

Pros: The end was understandable.
Cons: I was so lost and confused, after a while it just gets to be the same old stuff over and over again.

When I rented this movie. I could not remember anything about what I had seen as far as the advertisements for it on TV. But the girl at the movie store said that everyone in town has been raving about it. So I thought why not, and I rented it.
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Pros: Meg Ryan, good for ensomnia
Cons: boring, makes no sense

Probably the best way to summarize this movie is to say that there's an hour of my life that I won't get back. Ok, I know you're wondering why I said an hour when the movie is actually one and a half hours. Well that's because I couldn't take it any...

Pros: Tender little moments
Cons: Not enough of these to make the movie worth checking out

Nora Ephron once again attempts to bring us to tears with her gut wrenching story about 3 sister's whose ailing father, played by the late Walter Matthau, needs constant attention from them in the last few months of his life. The story is centered around...

Pros: great actors, cast meshes well, comedy nuggets
Cons: darker than most Meg Ryan films, deals with serious subjects

Seeing your father - most likely someone you remember as the strong, handsome protector - grow old and senile is a terrifying prospect. Holding onto your memories while come to terms with his illness is fully heart rending. And it is precisely this...