Hannah and Her Sisters

Title: Hannah and Her Sisters

Date: 1986

Media type: Film

Category: Internal Dynamics of Families, Human Sexuality and Health

Keywords: family relationship, family functioning, response to crises, sexual intimacy

Rating: PG-13

Audience(s): College Age, Adults

Language: English

Film/Episode Summary: During a Thanksgiving Day party we make acquaintance with a numerous and problematic family. The leading characters are three sisters: Lee, the woman of Frederick, an old misanthrope painter; Holly, who dreams of becoming a writer, or an actress, or who knows who…; Hannah, famous actress, beautiful, intelligent, good mother, good wife, good sister, in short perfect, the pivot of the family. The balance begins to break up when Hannah’s husband, Elliot, falls in love with Lee, who leaves Frederick. Holly goes through a deep crisis and meets Mickey, the former husband of Hannah, a hypochondriac TV producer. The affairs evolve and at the last Thanksgiving …

Contributor: Anonymous