| Product Summary | | Publisher: Columbia Tri-Star | | Format: DVD | | UPC: 00043396047488 | | Buy.com Sku: 40136846 | | Item#: V2NHGL | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 27646 | | Category Keywords: Theatrical Release | Rating:  |
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| | | Every family has a few hang-ups.
Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, English, Subtitled
When Eve (Meg Ryan) isn’t being pulled in a million directions by her own life, she’s being sucked into lengthy phone conversations with her cranky father (Walter Matthau) or her two sisters, successful magazine entrepreneur Georgia (Diane Keaton) and career-challenged Maddy (Lisa Kudrow). As the family becomes more and more dependent on Eve, transforming her into the human switchboard that connects them all together, Eve discovers that the ties that bind can also be the ties that gag! Her revelation doesn’t sit well with her sisters, though, forcing Eve to realize that sometimes to be heard, you just have to, well, hang up!
"Brilliant." Larry King, USA Today
"Hanging Up sparkles!" Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
"Meg Ryan will steal your heart!" David Sheehan, CBS-TV
Editor's Note
Daddy's favorite daughter is over-extended in this Diane Keaton-directed comedy about loving, laughing, and learning to let go. Meg Ryan plays party-planner Eve, a streched-too-thin mother, wife, sister, and dutiful daughter. Eve's harried life has become even more complicated by her reliance on modern technology--her cell phone, fax machine, lap top, and answering machine assist in tying up her already busy life. Walter Matthau is her ailing 79-year-old father, Lou, a curmudgeonly grouch who is admitted into the hospital with memory loss. Eve tries to recruit help with her father from her two neglectful sisters: Georgia (Diane Keaton), a New York publishing tycoon who runs her own magazine, the self-titled "Georgia," and baby sister Maddy (Lisa Kudrow), a self-involved soap opera actress. Hoping to please her father, Eve also tries to reach out to her mother (Cloris Leachman) who abandoned the family years earlier. But finally Eve must learn to "hang up" on the pressures, obligations, and responsibilities of being a do-it-all woman. Real-life sisters Nora and Delia Ephron co-wrote the screenplay to HANGING UP, which was adapted from Delia Ephron's book. HANGING UP was Walter Matthau's last film before his death in 2000.
| Features | Interactive Menus | | Theatrical Trailers | | Scene Selection | | Gag Reel | | Talent Files | | Production Notes | | Deleted Sequence | | English Subtitles | | HBO FIrst Look: "Getting Connected", The Making Of Hanging Up | | Widescreen And Full Screen Presentations | | Digitally Mastered Audio & Anamorphic Video | | English 5.1 Dolby Digital And 2-Channel Dolby Surround |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Columbia Tri-Star |
| Release Date: 3/23/2004 |
| Running Time: 95 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2000 | | Catalog ID: 04748 | | UPC: 00043396047488 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1/4:3 |
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| | Professional Reviews | San Francisco Chronicle 6 of 10
...Ryan is a good emotional actress, and she has the film's best moments. In one scene, Dad viciously insults Eve, and though she fights back, Ryan leaves the audience with no doubt that she is deeply hurt. Watching it, one can almost feel her devastation physically. Ryan also builds a nice rapport with Kudrow, and their sister relationship is believable. - Mick LaSalle
Chicago Sun-Times 6 of 10
...There are moments of sharp observation, as when we sense tha\ these pretty, chic women dress for their meetings with one another at least as carefully as a boxer tapes his wrists. The best scenes are the ones in which the daughters are performing as themselves--projecting the images they use in order to carve out psychic space within the family. - Roger Ebert
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