Three sisters - Georgia, Eve, and Maddy - do what they do best with life, love, and lunacy on the telephone lines that bind - when their curmudgeonly father, Lou, is admitted to a Los Angeles Hospital. After years of wild living, intermittent affection, and constant phoning, he is finally threatening to die.
Acting
Walter Matthau's final performance—cranky, heartbreaking, alive.
Direction
Keaton's only directorial feature, chaotic and deeply personal.
Writing
Delia Ephron's phone-call structure as emotional dodgeball.
Director
Diane Keaton
Meg Ryan
Eve Mozell Marks
Diane Keaton
Georgia Mozell
Lisa Kudrow
Maddy Mozell
Walter Matthau
Lou Mozell
Adam Arkin
Joe Marks
Jesse James
Jesse Marks
Shaun Duke
Dr. Omar Kunundar
Cloris Leachman
Pat Mozell
Maree Cheatham
Angie
Myndy Crist
Dr. Kelly
Edie McClurg
Esther
Tracee Ellis Ross
Kim
Libby Hudson
Georgia's Assistant (Libby)
Celia Weston
Madge Turner
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Delia Ephron's real sisters—Nora included, though she's fictionalized here. The phone-call structure came from actual family dynamics.
This was Matthau's final film; he died months after release. His scenes with the dog became unintentionally prophetic.
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