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Hanging Up
Sony Pictures Entertainment


5.0

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Unstrung Heroes

MPAA RATING: PG-13 for language and some sex-rekated nateruak

Starring Meg Ryan, Lisa Kudrow, Diane Keaton, and Walter Matthau

A trio of sisters (Ryan, Keaton, Kudrow) come together at the (possible) imminent death of their father (Matthau), to whom none of them was particularly close.

GENRE(S):	Drama
WRITTEN BY:	Delia Ephron (also book) Nora Ephron
DIRECTED BY:	Diane Keaton
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: June 27, 2000 Video: June 27, 2000 Theatrical: February 18, 2000
RUNNING TIME:	94 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	USA

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

(Matthau's) is a truly magical performance: hilarious, unguarded and deeply touching.

Mr. Showbiz F. X. Feeney

They make a believable trio of siblings, but not even their combined wit can lift this script above the maudlin.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

If you find her (Ryan) distinctive persona to be too irritatingly cute to bear, this mannered movie is likely to play like fingernails on a blackboard .

Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey

Imagine "King Lear" art-directed by Martha Stewart and you have Hanging Up.

New York Post Jonathan Foreman

A lame, glossy and disastrously misconceived film about three ditsy sisters dealing with the death of their horrible father.

Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday

Ends up being more about her hair (Meg Ryan's) than anything else.

Miami Herald Phoebe Flowers

Meg's as cute as ever, but empty Hanging Up never connects.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

More about continuing the legend of the irascible but lovable old man into the grave, if necessary.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

A flimsy sister act.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

Characters seem phony.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

Keaton doesn't have quite enough filmmaking savvy to balance the story's heart-wrenching and smile-coaxing aspects.

TNT RoughCut Sarah Raskin

Ryan gives her standard, likeable performance.

TV Guide Steve Simels

This is essentially a glib soap opera whose main characters are two-dimensional cliches used as clotheslines on which to hang sitcom-level jokes.

Film.com Ernest Hardy

It's hollow, forced and false.

Film.com Robert Horton

This is basically a movie about one neurotic woman and her neurotic L.A. life. .

Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas

All the ingredients of a success--a stellar cast, a promising premise, a strong production team--but nothing comes together in satisfying fashion.

Austin Chronicle Russell Smith

It's hard to imagine anyone ---coming away from Hanging Up with any sense of revelation, soul-enlargement, or even the simple pleasure of a compelling tale well told.

USA Today Susan Wloszczyna

This is about Meg. Only about Meg. Meg in the Middle.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

A chilly machine-tooled comedy.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Father-daughter relationship lacks impact.

Portland Oregonian Diana Abu-Jaber

So drippy it really should be hung out to dry.

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

Too screwy to be really funny.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Essentially an extended cutesy session.