Hanging Up is a 2000 English-language Comedy Drama film directed by Diane Keaton and produced by Nora Ephron and Laurence Mark. 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 and 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 Huggo. Hanging up stars Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton, Lisa Kudrow, Walter Matthau, Adam Arkin, Shaun Duke and Warren Sweeney. The screenplay is written by Delia Ephron and Nora Ephron which is inspired from Hanging Up by Delia Ephron. The music was composed by David Hirschfelder. Cinematography was done by Howard Atherton and editing by Julie Monroe. The movie has a running time of 94 minutes. It was released on 8th November 2000. Hanging Up was made on a budget of $60 million and at the box office it grossed only $51 million. Distribution rights for the motion picture were acquired by Columbia Pictures.