Hanging Up (2000)
Director
Diane Keaton
Main cast
Meg Ryan; Diane Keaton; Lisa Kudrow; Walter Matthau; Adam Arkin
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Description
A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.
Diane Keaton
Main cast
Meg Ryan; Diane Keaton; Lisa Kudrow; Walter Matthau; Adam Arkin
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Description
A trio of sisters bond over their ambivalence toward the approaching death of their curmudgeonly father, to whom none of them was particularly close.
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