Hanging Up
- Director: Diane Keaton
- Writer: Delia Ephron
- Producer: Delia Ephron; Nora Ephron
CGiii Comment
Walter Matthau's final film (such a lovely actor).
Sprinkled with a few gay characters - the Hollywood norm for the Noughties - and there might even be a sniff of lesbianism in the air.
This is an inoffensive run-of-the-mill potential tearjerker which doesn't really get the waterworks going.
Definitely one for a Sunday afternoon.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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 her own sanity, while dealing with her sisters, who believe they too are part of their father's care while they don't lift a finger to help.
Cast & Characters
Meg Ryan as Eve Mozell Marks;
Diane Keaton as Georgia Mozell;
Lisa Kudrow as Maddy Mozell;
Walter Matthau as Lou Mozell;
Adam Arkin as Joe Marks;
Shaun Duke as Dr. Omar Kunundar;
Ann Bortolotti as Ogmed Kunundar;
Cloris Leachman as Pat Mozell;
Maree Cheatham as Angie;
Myndy Crist as Dr. Kelly;
Libby Hudson as Libby;
Jesse James as Jesse Marks;
Edie McClurg as Esther;
Tracee Ellis Ross as Kim;
Celia Weston as Madge Turner