Hannah Free

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Hannah Free

2009

1h 26m

Drama

LGBTQ+

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A lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home.

Stephen Holden

New York Times

Hannah Free is a tear-jerker about longtime lesbian lovers languishing in the same Michigan nursing home.

Rated: 2.5/5

Dec 11, 2009

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V.A. Musetto

New York Post

It might be OK some early morning on an obscure cable network. But that's it.

Rated: 1/4

Dec 11, 2009

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Nick Schager

Time Out

Gray-haired Gless grouches with embarrassing abandon while chatting with the young ghost of her soulmate and befriending a mysterious girl (Jackson).

Rated: 1/5

Dec 9, 2009

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Steve Ramos

Boxoffice Magazine

What Hannah Free offers are Gless' sass and good intentions. Achieving crossover business, even within the specialty film world, requires more.

Rated: 1/5

Dec 18, 2009

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Matt Pais

Metromix.com

Good intentions don't matter when everything else is so incompetent.

Rated: 1/5

Nov 24, 2009

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Fr. Chris Carpenter

Movie Dearest

Sharon Gless...gives a fine performance, but this is an otherwise schmaltzy movie that is hard to swallow.

Rated: C

Oct 23, 2009

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<i>A story about living and loving and letting go.</i>

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Audience Member

I thought it was fairly well done.. not perfect, but heartfelt .

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/11/23

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Audience Member

Quiet and a little depressing movie about love, life, death and saying goodbye - with a marvelous cast, especially the amazing Sharon Gless.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/16/23

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Adapted from a play and it showed. Sharon Gless was good in the role, but it was too slow and boring. They needed to show more variety in the flashbacks and delve deeper into the world back then.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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Audience Member

Adapted from a play and it showed. Sharon Gless was good in the role, but it was too slow and boring. They needed to show more variety in the flashbacks and delve deeper into the world back then.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

01/19/23

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Audience Member

It was okay but nothing to rave about despite the film winning so many awards. http://www.hannahfree.com/ I think this info summarizes the plot very nicely: "Hannah and Rachel grew up as little girls in the same small Midwest town, where traditional gender expectations eventually challenge their deep love for one another. Hannah becomes an adventurous, unapologetic lesbian and Rachel a strong but quiet homemaker. Weaving back and forth between past and present, the film reveals how the women maintained their love affair despite a marriage, a world war, infidelities, and family denial." Sharon Gless performance was fine and a good plot but I found it very depressing towards the end. I recommend it but not part of my collection..

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Wendy Jo Carlton

Director

Sharon Gless

Older Hannah

Maureen Gallagher

Older Rachel

Kelli Strickland

Adult Hannah

Ann Hagemann

Adult Rachel

Taylor Miller

Marge

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Synopsis

A lifelong love affair between an independent spirit and the woman she calls home.

Director: Wendy Jo Carlton
Producer: Sharon Gless
Screenwriter: Claudia Allen
Production Co: Ripe Fruit Films
Genre: Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 27, 2016
Runtime: 1h 26m