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Closer (2004)
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Reviews Counted: 187
Fresh: 130
Rotten:57
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Rated: R [See Full Rating] for sequences of graphic sexual dialogue, nudity/sexuality and language
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release: Dec 3, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $33,987,757
Synopsis: Are humans meant to mate for life? What drives someone in a perfectly good relationship to cheat and risk losing the one that they love and that loves them? Is it possible to love more than one person at the same time? How well does anyone really... Are humans meant to mate for life? What drives someone in a perfectly good relationship to cheat and risk losing the one that they love and that loves them? Is it possible to love more than one person at the same time? How well does anyone really know the one that they love? Directed by Mike Nichols (THE GRADUATE, BIRDCAGE, WORKING GIRL), CLOSER questions the nature of relationships and fidelity as it follows the tangled web created by Dan (Jude Law), Alice (Natalie Portman), Anna (Julia Roberts), and Larry (Clive Owen). Dan, a British writer of obituaries, and Alice, a young American stripper, meet in the film's opening scene when a London cab runs her down. Cut to a year later: Dan and Alice are now a couple, but he is suddenly smitten with Anna, a beautiful American photographer. In an ironic twist of fate, Anna meets Larry, a British doctor, and they are soon a couple, despite Dan's continuing obsession. But the entanglements don't end there, and ultimately, someone is sure to get hurt. The four players do justice to a script that is humorous, raw and disarmingly honest about adult relationships. [More]
Starring: Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Clive Owen
Starring: Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Clive Owen
Director: Mike Nichols
Director: Mike Nichols
Screenwriter: Patrick Marber
Producer: John Calley, Cary Brokaw
Studio: Sony Pictures Entertainment
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Release:
May 15, 2007
Blu-ray Features:
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround - English, French, Italian, Russian
- PCM 5.1 - English
- Dubbed - French, Italian, Russian
- Subtitles - Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Thai - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Music Video - "The Blower's Daughter" - Damien Rice
Reviews for Closer
Marber looks at farcical giddiness with a hard-won sobriety.... Closer is a voguish farce that, rather than making you wish you were like the characters, makes you wish that you hadn't been.
...directors like Peter Greenaway and Mike Leigh have examined sexual politics and cruelty with results that are significantly more profound.
"Closer" isn't the kind of film just any audience would enjoy. The film features complex sexual and relationship themes that might leave some viewers cold.
The dialogue is often lacerating, as lovers wield words like lashes, striking out to get what they desire.
Offers a cynical and pessimistic look at the ongoing Sexual Revolution.
Since we only glimpse these personalities when they are threatened, the fun of the movie becomes trying to guess which behavior is genuine, and which is a means of defense.
Surely the most divisive film about modern relations since Eyes Wide Shut.
Portman, with her big, eager eyes and knowing, seductive smile ... lifts the movie up to another level.
Vibrates with eroticism, bruising laughs and dynamite performances from four attractive actors doing decidedly unattractive things.
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January 11, 2006:
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