Featured Audience Ratings

• Spencer S

  
  Hanging Up is a film about three sisters, very, very different from one another, who are unfortunately pulled together by their father, an alcoholic Alzheimer's patient who's wife left him and the family and has never recovered. It's taut, depressing, and harried… More
  Hanging Up is a film about three sisters, very, very different from one another, who are unfortunately pulled together by their father, an alcoholic Alzheimer's patient who's wife left him and the family and has never recovered. It's taut, depressing, and harried throughout, mostly lending to the fact that this is clearly all about Meg Ryan. The other two sisters are background noise in this movie, every problem, every little thing that needs encapsulating being about Ryan. Keaton directed and co-starred in this as the older sister who never gives credit where it's due, and typically can't be reached. This character is so bothersome to me and unneeded throughout, that her presence in any scene feels contemptuous. Kudrow is the other mess of a sister, who is eccentric and naive, and also need not be in this film. If it had focused solely on the relationship between Ryan's character and her father (portrayed by the still lucid and very talented Walter Matthau) it would have been more poignant and made a bit more sense. What really irked me was that her mother doesn't want anything to do with her, so leaves this family to ruin, and barely anything is really explained about their relationship. If that had been better cultivated, it would have been very moving and harrowing. Instead we're stuck with this maudlin, overworked plot that just keeps going into flashbacks that are supposed to reveal these big events in time, but are actually just flavorless frosting on an already bothersome cake. Neither is it funny, nor dramatic, nor a good movie for Ryan, who also made the unfortunate films Kate and Leopold and Addicted to Love in that decade. It's just not worth it in any way, shape, or form.

• Universal D

  
  Three grown up sisters face the impending demise of their father in this Keaton directed, Ephron scripted chick flick about facing mortality. It means well but often is strained and labored.

• Film C

  
  i liked it it was funny and sweet and showed how three completely different sisters fnally find themselves its really good and worth a watch!

• Candy R

  
  Movie about three different sisters.

• Dean M

  
  Fantastic and hilarious comedy of three sisters who always has lengthy phone conversation about their cranky father. I really love Meg Ryan's humour and heart and Diane Keaton does an excellent job on directing this film.

• Leigh R

  
  Great movie.

• Dannielle A

  
  I didn't care much for this movie. It was okay... I mean, there were funny parts and emotional parts, and I like Meg Ryan, but I really don't care for Diane Keaton, and I don't think I've ever seen a movie that I liked with her in it.

• Sunil J

  
  Perhaps a guilty pleasure. I liked this movie for all it's gooey emotional baggage. I was more than a little moved. Plus, Walter Matthau and Cloris Leachman!

• Leo L

  
  A favorite.

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