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Hanging Up

2000 · 94 min

A bittersweet, talky family comedy-drama that feels like juggling endless phone calls and old wounds, with moments of warmth and frustration.

Directed by
Diane Keaton
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Tagline
Every family has a few hang-ups.
Overview
Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly father, Lou, is admitted to a Los Angeles Hospital. After years of wild living, intermittent affection, and constant phoning, he is finally threatening to die.

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Directed by
Diane Keaton
Genres
Drama, Comedy
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • parenthood
  • grief
  • identity
  • healing
Places
  • big city
  • hospital
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour5
Realism8
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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