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On Rotten Tomatoes Hanging Up holds an approval rating of 12%, based on 85 reviews, with an average rating of 3.75/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Though the screenplay and the novel it's based on were both written by the same person, critics say Hanging Up is an unsuccessful adaptation. The acting is praised as solid, but is ...
Hangup, also called Hang Up and later released under the name Super Dude, [1] is a 1974 film directed by Henry Hathaway. It stars William Elliott and Marki Bey. [2] This was the last film directed by Hathaway. [3] The film falls in the blaxploitation subgenre of "vigilante group cleans up ghetto streets". [4]
The first act is usually used for exposition, to establish the main characters, their relationships, and the world they live in.Later in the first act, a dynamic, on-screen incident occurs, known as the inciting incident, or catalyst, that confronts the main character (the protagonist), and whose attempts to deal with this incident lead to a second and more dramatic situation, known as the ...
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[10] The Financial Times was also critical, praising the performances and the play for evoking a "Kafkaesque" feeling but describing the precise dialogue as being at odds with the vagueness of the story. [11] By contrast, WhatsOnStage was more positive, noting that the play had a surprising amount of humor and that the set was evocative. [12]
The story centers around an apparently supernatural case taken by a family of investigators who make up the Veritas Project. Seventy years after the suicidal hanging of Abel Frye, a bullied student, Jocks from the school's football team begin to lose their sanity after seeing what they believe to be Abel's ghost, which is rumored to be under the control of a group of witches out for revenge.
After a 1963 prologue showing British executioner Harry Wade at work, hanging a man, Hennessy, who goes to his grave proclaiming his innocence and pronouncing a curse on Harry, Hangmen flashes forward to 1965 in a town in northern England. The action centres around Harry, who we discover is the second-best hangman in the land.
Phone Booth is a 2002 American psychological thriller film directed by Joel Schumacher, produced by David Zucker and Gil Netter, written by Larry Cohen and starring Colin Farrell, Forest Whitaker, Katie Holmes, Radha Mitchell, and Kiefer Sutherland.