Hanging Up (2000)

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Connected to

Diane Keaton: 2 lines career ×1 craft ×1

  1. career (career): Diane Keaton → Hanging Up. Hanging Up was Keaton's biggest directing project and nearly the end of her directing career.
    “And after that, she directs the pilot episode of Mike White's Pasadena for Fox and never directs ever again.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:36:22 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

You've Got Mail: 2 lines lineage ×1 contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Hanging Up → You've Got Mail. You've Got Mail still holds up because it understood email's psychology; Hanging Up's phone premise has aged out.
    “you've got mail and you're like, they understood the psychological and sociological impact of email, even if the technology changed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:11:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

American Beauty: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Hanging Up → American Beauty. Early 2000 cinema, Hanging Up included, reflected pre-9/11 confidence that would not last.
    “And like, you're not going to make a movie like this a few years later.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:35:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Birds of Prey: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Hanging Up → Birds of Prey. Both make you wish the final act, where the characters finally share scenes, had been the whole movie.
    “you go, I wish this had been the entire movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:27:31 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)

Elizabeth: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Hanging Up → Elizabeth. The score comes from the composer of Elizabeth and Shine and is more conventional or weighty than expected.
    “the score from this movie is done by the man who did the score, his 2 previous, like, big scores before this, his 2 Oscar nominations were Elizabeth, and Shine.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:38:46 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Funny People: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Hanging Up → Funny People. Rich-person movies cost more because the locations must be rented and filled, as Apatow said of Funny People.
    “it costs a lot of money to make a movie about a rich person.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:08:01 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Meg Ryan: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Meg Ryan → Hanging Up. The Meg Ryan film Hanging Up will get a Patreon bonus episode.
    “hanging up, which, Griffin, we're going to discuss on Patreon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:25:17 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)

Mixed Nuts: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Hanging Up → Mixed Nuts. Like a movie a guest watched alone as a child, Hanging Up is a household movie in the speaker's sibling relationship.
    “movies that are like, this is a household movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:07:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Nora Ephron: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Hanging Up → Nora Ephron. The Nixon smoking-gun phone joke is the moment that feels most like Ephron comedic balance.
    “That is also, that is the thing that feels the most effronny.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:05:09 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)

One Fine Day: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Hanging Up → One Fine Day. Both are dated early cell-phone Hollywood films whose phone problems no longer exist.
    “It's the same thing about one fine day, another classic of early cell phone Hollywood filmmaking”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:10:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Pitch Black: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Hanging Up → Pitch Black. Pitch Black opened fourth the same weekend as Hanging Up and has aged far better.
    “It's just wild to think that that came out the same weekend as hanging up.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:27:08 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Sleepless in Seattle: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Hanging Up → Sleepless in Seattle. Ephron made chemistry between leads who never share a room in Sleepless; Hanging Up's phone-separated sisters lack it.
    “Nora Efron made a fucking movie, Sleepless in Seattle, where your 2 leads have chemistry together, despite not actually speaking until the last 10 minutes of the movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:58:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Sonia Saraiya: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Sonia Saraiya → Hanging Up. Saraiya did not like it in the theater and found it anticlimactic, yet cried at the last scene.
    “I didn't actually like it when I saw it in the theater”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:20:53 · Sonia Saraiya (0.90 sure it was them)

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Hanging Up → Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Space can be faked cheaply as in Wrath of Khan, but rich LA cannot.
    “You can't fake rich LA, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:09:10 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Fast and the Furious: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Hanging Up → The Fast and the Furious. The house in Hanging Up is the same house used in The Fast and the Furious.
    “that's the house that's in the fast and the furious, but in my mind, that's the hanging up house.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:08:35 · Sonia Saraiya (0.55 sure it was them)

The Shining: 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Hanging Up → The Shining. The film feels like re-edited footage cut into a different genre, like trailer recuts of The Shining.
    “The movie almost feels like one of those like trailer re-edits that used to be so popular”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:57:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

The Whole Nine Yards: 1 line programming ×1

  1. programming (programming): Hanging Up → The Whole Nine Yards. The Whole Nine Yards was the comedy for the boys; Hanging Up opened with the same money as the female-led comedy.
    “That's like the comedy for the boys and hanging up, which is opening with the exact same amount of money, is more of a female lead comedy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:19:54 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Titanic: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Hanging Up → Titanic. The podcast format lets it cover films like Hanging Up alongside Titanic or Star Wars.
    “a podcast that could also cover things like Titanic or Star Wars”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:12:09 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)

Tracee Ellis Ross: 1 line industry ×1

  1. industry (industry): Tracee Ellis Ross → Hanging Up. Tracee Ellis Ross in a thankless assistant role is offered as an example of women of color in service roles in 90s rom-coms.
    “you see a lot of like women of color showing up in thankless roles either as like service workers or personal assistants”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:49:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Tuesdays with Morrie (TV film): 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Hanging Up → Tuesdays with Morrie (TV film). Matthau's menacing last role is set against Lemmon's sappy farewell.
    “in my final role, I play Hollywood's Toxic Masculinity”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:45:00 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)

Twin Peaks (TV series): 1 line craft ×1

  1. craft (craft): Hanging Up → Twin Peaks (TV series). Dream-state moments in Hanging Up read as Lynchian, beyond the Keaton Twin Peaks connection.
    “Yes, it felt lynchian to me and not just because of the twin peaks connection.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:39:54 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)

Unstrung Heroes: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (theme): Hanging Up → Unstrung Heroes. Keaton's earlier film about a boy and his difficult family sounds similar to Hanging Up.
    “There are changes, it gets closer to his uncles, sounds similar to hanging up.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:36:11 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

Walter Matthau: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Walter Matthau → Hanging Up. Matthau's performance was good enough that a better-liked film might have brought an Oscar nomination.
    “if this movie had been 10% more liked, it feels like he would have gotten an Oscar nomination.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:43:39 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

When Harry Met Sally: 1 line contrast ×1

  1. contrast (contrast): Hanging Up → When Harry Met Sally. When Harry Met Sally is also built on phone conversations yet has chemistry.
    “so much of that movie is phone conversations, and it does feel like there's chemistry between those people.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:59:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Diane Keaton → Hanging Up. Hanging Up was Keaton's biggest directing project and nearly the end of her directing career.
    “And after that, she directs the pilot episode of Mike White's Pasadena for Fox and never directs ever again.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:36:22 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)

contrast (5)

  1. contrast (contrast): Hanging Up → Tuesdays with Morrie (TV film). Matthau's menacing last role is set against Lemmon's sappy farewell.
    “in my final role, I play Hollywood's Toxic Masculinity”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:45:00 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
  2. contrast (contrast): Hanging Up → Sleepless in Seattle. Ephron made chemistry between leads who never share a room in Sleepless; Hanging Up's phone-separated sisters lack it.
    “Nora Efron made a fucking movie, Sleepless in Seattle, where your 2 leads have chemistry together, despite not actually speaking until the last 10 minutes of the movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:58:53 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. contrast (contrast): Hanging Up → When Harry Met Sally. When Harry Met Sally is also built on phone conversations yet has chemistry.
    “so much of that movie is phone conversations, and it does feel like there's chemistry between those people.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:59:12 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. contrast (contrast): Hanging Up → Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Space can be faked cheaply as in Wrath of Khan, but rich LA cannot.
    “You can't fake rich LA, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:09:10 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. contrast (contrast): Hanging Up → You've Got Mail. You've Got Mail still holds up because it understood email's psychology; Hanging Up's phone premise has aged out.
    “you've got mail and you're like, they understood the psychological and sociological impact of email, even if the technology changed.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:11:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

craft (5)

  1. craft (craft): Hanging Up → Nora Ephron. The Nixon smoking-gun phone joke is the moment that feels most like Ephron comedic balance.
    “That is also, that is the thing that feels the most effronny.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:05:09 · David Sims (0.45 sure it was them)
  2. craft (craft): Diane Keaton → Hanging Up. Keaton says she leaves actors alone, yet the film's big choices came in the editing room with gauzy crossfades.
    “her biggest decisions are being made in the editing room at this movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:38:01 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. craft (craft): Hanging Up → Elizabeth. The score comes from the composer of Elizabeth and Shine and is more conventional or weighty than expected.
    “the score from this movie is done by the man who did the score, his 2 previous, like, big scores before this, his 2 Oscar nominations were Elizabeth, and Shine.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:38:46 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  4. craft (craft): Hanging Up → Twin Peaks (TV series). Dream-state moments in Hanging Up read as Lynchian, beyond the Keaton Twin Peaks connection.
    “Yes, it felt lynchian to me and not just because of the twin peaks connection.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:39:54 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)
  5. craft (craft): Hanging Up → The Shining. The film feels like re-edited footage cut into a different genre, like trailer recuts of The Shining.
    “The movie almost feels like one of those like trailer re-edits that used to be so popular”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:57:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

industry (4)

  1. industry (industry): Hanging Up → The Fast and the Furious. The house in Hanging Up is the same house used in The Fast and the Furious.
    “that's the house that's in the fast and the furious, but in my mind, that's the hanging up house.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:08:35 · Sonia Saraiya (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. industry (industry): Tracee Ellis Ross → Hanging Up. Tracee Ellis Ross in a thankless assistant role is offered as an example of women of color in service roles in 90s rom-coms.
    “you see a lot of like women of color showing up in thankless roles either as like service workers or personal assistants”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:49:28 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. industry (industry): Hanging Up → Funny People. Rich-person movies cost more because the locations must be rented and filled, as Apatow said of Funny People.
    “it costs a lot of money to make a movie about a rich person.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:08:01 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. industry (industry): Hanging Up → Titanic. The podcast format lets it cover films like Hanging Up alongside Titanic or Star Wars.
    “a podcast that could also cover things like Titanic or Star Wars”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:12:09 · Griffin Newman (0.45 sure it was them)

lineage (1)

  1. lineage (lineage): Hanging Up → You've Got Mail. Hanging Up is the phone/cell-phone sibling of the Ephron sisters' earlier email movie.
    “isn't it funny that there's a Nora Efron project to, like, in the infancy of email that's like an email movie?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:14:03 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

programming (3)

  1. programming (programming): Meg Ryan → Hanging Up. The Meg Ryan film Hanging Up will get a Patreon bonus episode.
    “hanging up, which, Griffin, we're going to discuss on Patreon.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber (Ad-Free) · 1:25:17 · David Sims (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. programming (programming): Hanging Up → The Whole Nine Yards. The Whole Nine Yards was the comedy for the boys; Hanging Up opened with the same money as the female-led comedy.
    “That's like the comedy for the boys and hanging up, which is opening with the exact same amount of money, is more of a female lead comedy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:19:54 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. programming (programming): Hanging Up → Pitch Black. Pitch Black opened fourth the same weekend as Hanging Up and has aged far better.
    “It's just wild to think that that came out the same weekend as hanging up.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:27:08 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

theme (5)

  1. theme (theme): Hanging Up → Mixed Nuts. Like a movie a guest watched alone as a child, Hanging Up is a household movie in the speaker's sibling relationship.
    “movies that are like, this is a household movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:07:45 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. theme (theme): Hanging Up → Birds of Prey. Both make you wish the final act, where the characters finally share scenes, had been the whole movie.
    “you go, I wish this had been the entire movie.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:27:31 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. theme (theme): Hanging Up → Unstrung Heroes. Keaton's earlier film about a boy and his difficult family sounds similar to Hanging Up.
    “There are changes, it gets closer to his uncles, sounds similar to hanging up.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:36:11 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  4. theme (theme): Hanging Up → One Fine Day. Both are dated early cell-phone Hollywood films whose phone problems no longer exist.
    “It's the same thing about one fine day, another classic of early cell phone Hollywood filmmaking”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:10:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  5. theme (theme): Hanging Up → American Beauty. Early 2000 cinema, Hanging Up included, reflected pre-9/11 confidence that would not last.
    “And like, you're not going to make a movie like this a few years later.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:35:05 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

verdict (2)

  1. verdict (verdict): Sonia Saraiya → Hanging Up. Saraiya did not like it in the theater and found it anticlimactic, yet cried at the last scene.
    “I didn't actually like it when I saw it in the theater”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:20:53 · Sonia Saraiya (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. verdict (verdict): Walter Matthau → Hanging Up. Matthau's performance was good enough that a better-liked film might have brought an Oscar nomination.
    “if this movie had been 10% more liked, it feels like he would have gotten an Oscar nomination.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:43:39 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Hanging Up: IMDb carrot-costume quote: Maddie's demand to fight, answered by "fine" in unison.
    “Ever since I was 7 years old for Halloween, I dressed up as a carrot and you 2 snuck off without me.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:02:59 · Griffin Newman (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Hanging Up: The Nixon smoking-gun phone call is the favorite joke and feels most Ephron.
    “My favorite joke in the movie is when Meg Ryan picks up the phone and it's Nixon, the smoking gun call”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:04:56 · Griffin Newman (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Hanging Up: The house is the one from The Fast and the Furious; for Saraiya it stays the Hanging Up house.
    “that's the house that's in the fast and the furious, but in my mind, that's the hanging up house.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:08:35 · Sonia Saraiya (0.55 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Hanging Up: Delia Ephron, overheard in a theater, said Keaton ruined the best thing she would write (told by Bobby on the You've Got Mail episode).
    “She ruined the best thing I'll ever write.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:15:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  5. fun, about Hanging Up: Lisa Kudrow's subplot features a dog the size of a mountain.
    “she has this dog, the size of a mountain.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:31:12 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  6. fun, about Hanging Up: The Halloween birthday party for a five-year-old looks like it cost more than a wedding.
    “probably cost more than my wedding.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:46:14 · Sonia Saraiya (0.50 sure it was them)
  7. fun, about Hanging Up: The runtime joke: a 90-minute film where the dad is in a coma around minute 82.
    “dad's going to be in a coma around 82 mins and then we're going to do some flashbacks.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:56:08 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  8. fun, about Hanging Up: The film is like a trailer recut that turns a movie into another genre.
    “The movie almost feels like one of those like trailer re-edits that used to be so popular”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 0:57:55 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  9. fun, about Hanging Up: Georgia's cynical speech swells with "Georgia on My Mind" as the crowd stands.
    “Georgia on my mind swells and people rise to their feet.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:06:25 · David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)
  10. fun, about Hanging Up: Technology dates the film at once: multiple phone lines and a fax machine.
    “there's like a fax machine and I was just like, this is quaint.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:09:52 · Sonia Saraiya (0.80 sure it was them)
  11. fun, about Hanging Up: The phrase "blank check" is said 4 or 5 times in the film while they try to get Matthau to sign one.
    “The term blank check is uttered 4 or 5 times”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:13:30 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  12. fun, about Hanging Up: Streaming on Tubi: ads timed every 14 minutes, interrupting scenes.
    “we're just gonna have an ad every 14 minutes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:15:13 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)
  13. fun, about Hanging Up: Griffin's own Hanging Up memory is seeing it in Harvard Square with an algebra teacher he disliked.
    “It was with this algebra teacher that I didn't like.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Hanging Up with Sonia Sarayia · 1:30:09 · Griffin Newman (0.75 sure it was them)

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