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Released
2000 · FILM

Hanging Up

Three estranged sisters reconnect through their chaotic phone calls when their difficult, aging father is hospitalized, forcing them to confront their fractured relationships and his uncertain future.

Every family has a few hang-ups.

Directed by
Runtime
94 min
ComedyDrama

Synopsis

Three sisters—Georgia, Eve, and Maddy—navigate the complexities of life, love, and chaos through their frequent phone calls, which connect them as their difficult father, Lou, is hospitalized in Los Angeles. After years of erratic behavior, sporadic displays of affection, and constant communication, Lou's health is now at a critical point, and he is facing the possibility of death.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 18

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Julie MonroeShot by Howard AthertonScored by David HirschfelderDesigned by Waldemar Kalinowski

Box Office

2000 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$51.9M

Budget$60.0M
Worldwide gross$51.9M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $36.1M 69% of worldwide · International: $15.8M (31%)

Opening weekend: $13.6M 38% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $18.6M51% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2,618 theaters

Also known as

  • Aufgelegtde
  • Raccroche !fr
  • Avviso di chiamatait

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