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Summary: Full Box of Tissues
Review: A very sad movie which needs a full box of tissues. The issues of a father's death and problems of sisters and their relationships with each other are not issues that can make a comedy, in any case. But a very good movie if you are looking for a human issues film.
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Summary: Oh if it was only a Phone call......
Review: Good Lawd did it drag on like talking to a relative that wont shut up long enough to just get to the Hanging Up. Oh man what a snore bore! Hollywood had the nerve to lable this a comedy ? Bad Drama at best!No doubt a steller cast but no script,no direction....No Point ! Here is a hint if you watch this. Take a clock or a watch,And count how many times that you look at it. No kidding, That BAD.Meg Ryan can only be so cute,Kudrow can only whine so much. And I swear when will Diane Keaton give up that one Womans lib suitshes been wearing for the past twenty years.3 sistersdivorced mom and dad,Hurts,Healing,Life.....But my gosh somebody had to of yawned before it left the cutting room !I sure hope their checks cashed, Because they sure didnt get paid by box office ticket sales.MISS AT ALL COSTS!
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Summary: BAD BAD BAD
Review: This is the worst movie ever made in the history of the Earth! Meg Ryan's worst acting ever! Diane Keaton tries patheticly to make us believe she's forty when she looks closer to 75. Bad movie, Bad acting.... please to even insinuate that Diane Keaton could be Lisa Kudrow's and Meg Ryan's sister... she looks more like their grandma!
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Summary: 3 sisters face their father's death
Review: This movie touches on issues which everyone faces at one time or another. Three sisters have a dying father, but only one of them, Eve, is facing up to her responsiblity. The other two, Georgia, a magazine editor, and Maddy, a soap opera actress, are very self-absorbed and are pursuing their own lives and careers. In flashbacks we reconstruct the family history, from their mother leaving their father to his drunken interference with his grandson's birthday party. There are happy scenes, too, when the parents are in love and their father dances and plays with them. Eve is the responsible one in every situation and soon her cell phone becomes a symbol of everyone's reliance on her to carry the load for the rest of them. Walter Matthau's performance as a dying man becomes all too poignant in light of his recent death. This film tends to jump around a bit without a real focus, but we are given bits and pieces of wisdom and insight into children facing a parent's death and their own mortality. In spite of the last scene which reeks of sisterly love and high jinks, we are left to wonder if these siblings ever truly connected in a meaningful and lasting way.
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Summary: Very Average
Review: Aside From Meg Ryan Who Else Really Got into this Movie?one would think with Walter Matthau that the Film Would have had a Few More Laughs but it doesn't even come close.Diane Keaton Really Doesn't do much for the film same goes for Lisa Kudrow.this Film Takes on More issues without Solving Anything.A Good Idea that gets Buried real Fast.
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Summary: Hang it up!
Review: Ironically, I watched this video the same day that Walter Matthau passed away. Sadly, this shallow film with its annoying "Leitmotif" of incessant cellular, cordless and land-line telephone calls gives the impression that you're watching a monologue and not a movie. Sadly, I'll always have this film come to mind as Mr. Matthau's last effort. With its predictable plot and one dimensional acting from so many "big names", I can only wonder if his "grumpy-ness" in this film was an act or his way of expressing a final critique.
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Summary: "Hung-up" on this?
Review: Sadly-or as a consolation that legitimizes watching this-the most affecting moments of the pseudo feel-good "Hanging Up" are the most pathetic. The would-be dramedy has the elements of both, but the timing of the elements are not mutually exclusive. Take, for instance, Walter Matthau's drunken romp through his daughter's child's Halloween party: what should have typified why Meg Ryan is haunted and irked by her father's curmudgeonly demeanor and makes it hard for her to come to terms with his imminent death and ultimately forgive him is reduced to just a mere flashback that does little in the way of enhance our understanding of Meg Ryan's attitude towards him presently and how she comes to terms; one does not know whether to laugh or cry during the scene where Meg Ryan relates details of a fake earthquake measuring "3.11" or so on the Richter scale, glibly playing into her delusional father's fantasy that his wife-albeit by the looks of things she did it smartly-really did not walk out on him. Here again, is another unresolved issue: why she left Matthau, and cannot make peace with him. Matthau must be rolling over in his grave after having his last film portray his character nothing more than the grouch that people just-in the backs of their minds-dismiss as old and love unconditionally. The most cathartic moment of "Hangin' Up" finds Meg Ryan "disconnecting all her phones" on which she and her sisters spend half the movie-a very 90s technique suggested and employed by New Age gurus and directress Nora Ephron so as to get in touch with one's self; it marks the point where Ryan starts to artificially patch things up with her sisters,one of whom is played by actress-turned-ego-maniacal director Diane Keaton who is a Martha Stewart type domestic-diva. Metaphorically, this "disconnect" represents the dispelling of the "hang-ups" that have haunted the characters for years: one being that Keaton's character stole a recipe from Ryan's character. Lisa Kudrow's savvy delivery is wasted in the water here amidst the blandness of Ryan and Keaton that her interactions with her canine are more comedic. Ms. Tracee Ross suffers the similar fate to Kudrow relegated to a poodle-coiffed secretary; how Ms. Diana Ross could sanction her appearance is quite curious.
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Summary: "Hung-up" on this?
Review: Sadly-or as a consolation that legitimizes wathcing this-the most affecting moments of the pseudo feel-good "Hanging Up" are the most pathetic. The would-be dramedy has the elements of both, but the timing of the elements are not mutually exclusive. Take, for instance, Walter Matthau's drunken romp through his daughter's child's Halloween party: what should have typified why Meg Ryan is haunted and irked by her father's curmudgeonly demeanor and makes it hard for her to come to terms with his imminent death and ultimately forgive him is reduced to just a mere flashback that does little in the way of enhance our understanding of Meg Ryan's attitude towards him presently and how she comes to terms; one does not know whether to laugh or cry during the scene where Meg Ryan relates details of a fake earthquake measuring "3.11" or so on the Richter scale, glibly playing into her delusional father's fantasy that his wife-albeit by the looks of things she did it smartly-really did not walk out on him. Here again, is another unresolved issue: why she left Matthau, and cannot make peace with him. Matthau must be rolling over in his grave after having his last film portray his character nothing more than the grouch that people just-in the backs of their minds-dismiss as old and love unconditionally. The most cathartic moment of "Hangin' Up" finds Meg Ryan "disconnecting all her phones" on which she and her sisters spend half the movie-a very 90s technique suggested and employed by New Age gurus and directress Nora Ephron so as to get in touch with one's self; it marks the point where Ryan starts to artificially patch things up with her sisters,one of whom is played by actress-turned-ego-maniacal director Diane Keaton who is a Martha Stewart type domestic-diva. Metaphorically, this "disconnect" represents the dispelling of the "hang-ups" that have haunted the characters for years: one being that Keaton's character stole a recipe from Ryan's character. Lisa Kudrow's savvy delivery is wasted in the water here amidst the blandness of Ryan and Keaton that her interactions with her canine are more comedic. Ms. Tracee Ross, bug-eyed and under-utilised for her comedic talent, suffers a similar fate playing a poodle-coiffed secretary; how Diana Ross could sanction her appearance in the movie is quite curious.
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Summary: You need to hang up on this one ASAP!
Review: How's this for a plot: Put three blonds in black business suits, ensure that they spend most of their time on their cell phones (gee, what an original thought! ..I mean, I never get to see any of this in real life!), and make sure you have plenty of scenes that when they are not cackling like hens at one another in disjointed and non-related dialog, they are shrieking and hissing like alley cats fighting over a putrid fish carcase. Add in a father character that is inconsistent and bewildering, put strong profanity in the mouth of a little girl, and prove to the world that the three blond stars are not afraid of hurling "F...You!"s at each other in public. Oh please...! But hey, what a cast! Matthau + Kudrow + Arkin + Keaton = another MegaRyan hit right?? WRONG!!! This groaner is proof again that it takes more than an all star cast to make a good movie, and proof once again that even proven actors cannot overcome the limitations of a vapid script and weak directing (I am not slamming Diane Keaton's directorial efforts here, but I had to endure the results of it, and I'm still moaning over what I forced myself to endure - {my boredom became so great that I found myself much more intrigued with the floating flourescent blobs in my Lava lamps}). I rented this specifically to honor the memory of the late Mr. Matthau who passed away just three days ago. I have always loved his work, but I am saddened that this movie was his final effort - he certainly deserved better material than this script to work with. Two brief scenes started showing promise and I was rooting for this rocket to "Go Baby, GO!" But alas, just like film footage from the 50's showing the Russian's fledgling attempts, this baby never cleared the tower and came crashing back into the lauching pad in big flames and stinky, black smoke. So what is my final advice? Rent "Grumpy Old Men", "Romi & Michelle's High School Reunion", and watch "Sleepless In Seattle" one more time. These I do not have to apologize for nor feel responsible to try and protect you from.
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Summary: Real life relations
Review: Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan, and Lisa Kudrow are three sisters who couldn't be more different. But when they are reunited by the failing health of their father, they must find ways to make up for past regrets and move on. You would really have to relate to this movie in order to appreciate it. Meg Ryan is so stressed out and she shows it so well. They really make you feel their emotions in this movie. A lot of people did not like this movie but it did take a look at reality and sisterhood.
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