Hanging Up

"Every family has a few hang-ups."

Feb 18 2000 PG-13 1h 34m
Comedy, Drama

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.

Plot

Georgia Mozell, Eve Marks and Maddy Mozell are adult sisters. Georgia is the editor of her own wildly successful self-titled women's magazine. She strives for publicity at any cost. Party planner Eve is the mother hen of the group, not only of her own family, but also of her siblings and father as their mother, Pat, not only emotionally left their father when they divorced, but her daughters as well. And Maddy is a vacuous soap opera actress who has always struggled for her own identity. Despite being as busy with her own life as the others, Eve is the only one of the three who deals with the long term hospitalization of their cantankerous seventy-nine year old father, Lou Mozell, when he enters the early stages of dementia, and the associated outcomes of that hospitalization. Eve's caring for Lou is despite an especially hurtful incident with him seven years earlier. As the emotional aspect of looking after Lou becomes more and more stressful, Eve has to figure out how to maintain her own sanity, while dealing with her sisters, who believe they too are part of their father's care while they don't lift a finger to help.

Written by

Delia Ephron, Nora Ephron

Directed by

Diane Keaton

Production Countries

United States of America, Germany

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures, Laurence Mark Productions, Global Medien KG, Nora Ephron Productions

Languages

Italiano, English

Awards

2 wins & 1 nomination

Scores
# of Votes
13,431
Average Rating
4.9 out of 10
Metascore
33
Popularity
NA