Hannah Takes the Stairs

Name: Hannah Takes the Stairs
Genre: Drama
Released: August 22, 2007
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 63

2007

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IFC Films | Release Date: August 22, 2007

Summary: Hannah, a recent college graduate, spends a brutally hot Chicago summer falling in and out of love. As she struggles to find personal and professional fulfillment through various relationships with friends and coworkers, she risks leaving destruction in her wake. Working collaboratively with his cast, which features several prominentHannah, a recent college graduate, spends a brutally hot Chicago summer falling in and out of love. As she struggles to find personal and professional fulfillment through various relationships with friends and coworkers, she risks leaving destruction in her wake. Working collaboratively with his cast, which features several prominent independent filmmakers, Joe Swanberg follows up his previous efforts, "Kissing on the Mouth" and "LOL", with this delicate look at friendship, ambition, and the pursuit of happiness. [IFC Films]… Expand

Director: Joe Swanberg

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 83 min

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Don R. Lewis

What really elevates Hannah Takes the Stairs is the truly outstanding performance by Greta Gerwig. Read full review

Marrit Ingman

The film has no script; it goes from moment to moment unhurriedly. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

How can a movie with such a charming cast (let's not forget Ry Russo-Young as Hannah's female roommate) and believable dialogue (seemingly taken from the actors' real lives) go wrong? It can't. Read full review

Carina Chocano

There's something to be said for cinema this perversely naturalistic. Read full review

Scott Foundas

Like most of the men in the film, we would happily follow her anywhere. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

What defines the slacker-geek twentysomething men and women who wander through Joe Swanberg's too-hip-to-be-romantic comedy Hannah Takes the Stairsis that they treat their libidos as minor accessories -- only to stammer through every casual conversation as if they were on a first Internet date. Read full review

Joe Leydon

Has the unmistakable look and feel of a micro-budget indie produced for a small circle of friends, many of whom are listed in the credits. Read full review

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ShiT.

Oct 5, 2007

We got ourselves some angry reviewers. We put our emotions about drugs, laziness and strangely enough being white get in the way of our review! I bet they are both the same person! No one ever agrees on the internet.

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extrafizz

Oct 20, 2012

This is actually one of the best films i've ever seen...

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JayH.

Feb 7, 2008

Very low budget independent film, I suppose there is supposed to be some deep significance to the movie, but I was too bored to care about what that might be. It seemed like a home movie to me, and not an interesting one at that.

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WalterB

Sep 26, 2007

Joe's review says it all. It takes seven writers to write something this bland and disgustingly white? Go back to your bongs and give the camera back to Bujalski. At least he writes his garbage alone.

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JoeJ.

Aug 24, 2007

This film is awful and entirely unrepresentative of our generation, unless of course we are all white, wealthy and unmotivated.

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PeterK.

Apr 26, 2008

I thought Paris Hilton could not make movies until I saw this waste of time - now she seems like an Academy Award winner. Plotless, pointless and banal - and hand-held filming to boot - Hannah Takes the Stairs is Cloverfield without the monster. Watch the trailer and save your time.

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