"Hanging Up"
The Pitch: Event planner Eve (Meg Ryan) frantically
tries to bring order to her own life as her dying
father (Walter Matthau) descends deeper into
senility. Unfortunately, her high-powered older sister
(Diane Keaton) and New Age-y younger one (Lisa Kudrow)
are more hindrance than help.
The Big Picture: Two years after swearing she would
never direct herself in a movie, Keaton (Unstrung
Heroes) found herself doing double duty on Delia
and Nora Ephron's adaptation of Delia's
semiautobiographical novel. "I'm so full of shit, as
always,"Keaton says, laughing. "It's disgusting,
isn't it?" After Nora, who produced the film, opted
not to direct, Delia says, "It took Diane quite a while
to decide. I think she was about to give the part
away when she realized she couldn't bear to. " The
Ephrons' script has more than Hollywood's
usual recommended dose of powerful female characters.
"There's not a sibling in my family who couldn't run the
Israeli army," Delia says. And Keaton ran her show
with lots of screwball candor. During one of Ryan's
tearful close-ups, "we all start to cry, and Diane sort
of rolls her head into my shoulder,"Ryan says. "The
camera is on me, and she says in my ear, 'Meg, are you
done acting yet? Can I cut?' " No one inspired as much
laughter as Matthau, who took full advantage of his
attractive younger costars.
"He'd say things to me like, 'So you're the pretty
daughter,' " Kudrow recalls. "Everything he did was
in good taste-except for certain jokes. " Ryan adds,
"I really believe he's a national treasure, but you
can't believe the places he pinches people. "
"Hanging Up", scheduled for release as follows:
USA 25 December 1999
Iceland 2 March 2000
source: "Premiere Magazine"
PS:映期是舊消息, 美國映期已改為11 Feb 2000.
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