Product Details

• Actors: Kent Osborne, Andrew Bujalski, Greta Gerwig, Ry Russo-Young, Mark Duplass
• Directors: Joe Swanberg
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Genius Products (TVN)
• DVD Release Date: April 22, 2008
• Run Time: 83 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00125WAVY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,473 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "Hannah Takes the Stairs" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

Hannah, a recent college graduate, spends a brutally hot Chicago summer falling in and out of love. As she struggles to find personal and professional fulfullment through various relationships with friends and co-workers, she leaves destruction in her wake. Outstanding casts of rising indie film stars create an intimate look at friendship, ambition and th pursuit of happiness.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Like, Don't, Like, Bother With This, Like, Movie June 11, 2012

By KinoChelovek

Format:DVD

One of the main conversations at the end of the movie has Hannah and her soon-to-be boyfriend using the word "like" SOOOO many times, that I was laughing! It was supposed to be a scene of self-reflection for both and becomes inane.

Oh, was this tedious! It just a slice-of-life, low budget film that looks to have been made in someone's basement. Everyone is a slacker at some "job" in a very ill-defined, Chicago-area, cinder-block closet. It appears to be some video production company, but the lack of any work or any overheard conversations, on and off of phones, really doesn't make it clear. The characters are pathetic and annoying - ultimately unrealistic and wooden. The actors and actresses seem to be relying on some direction for the story. The lack of depth simply makes the characters unsympathetic and the viewer is left finding zero empathy with any one of them. In most of the movie, I believed that the cast was drunk and simply ad-libbing in their drunken states. Just look at how red their faces and watery the eyes are throughout!

Why this movie was picked-up by Weinstein or IFC is beyond me. Maybe they all like looking at Hannah's nude body or the male nudity at the end.

Please note that the DVD cover gives the movie "No Rating", but the nudity itself and the highly adult "relationships" storyline is not for young viewers. This is a twenty-something movie. It uses the word "like" so many times, that I was screaming it to prompt the coming of the word. I'm from Chicago and never heard the word used so much in conversation. It's a sign of bad spech and writing. The sound work is poor, mostly because the director forgot the cardinal rules in sound (such as don't film in places where it will reverberate and sound horrible in the final cut).

1 of 5. Just stay away, and don't be suckered into the DVD cover. Hey, Swanberg - Where can I get a job in CHICAGO where I just sit around, do nothing work-related, talk gibberish, hit people with toys, and make out with a girl???

3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting coming of age film March 16, 2013

By R. Overall

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

...but only moderately entertaining. Usual Hollywood mess of what started as a good script. Put in my secondary collection for now.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars The only redeeming quantity are the nude scenes October 14, 2010

By D. F. Curran

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

There is an opening shower scene with one lover. And a closing bathtub scene with a third lover. The middle lover didn't get a nude scene. The nude scenes are the highlight (the only highlight) of this movie. The cinematography is good so a star for that and another for the leading lady's charms. You have to wonder if they made up the script as they went along. It is worse than mundane. I cannot believe anyone talking like these people do. I cannot believe these people work at a television show. There are scenes where she makes faces at a bus stop. I don't know why she dumped the shower guy. But the bathtub guy playing a horn along with nude Hannah playing her horn was worth the $1.17 I paid for a used copy. But don't waste your life watching the middle of this. How did it ever get into blockbuster?