loading...
Closer
2004
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, .. Read more
| Starring | Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Clive Owen |
|---|---|
| Director | Mike Nichols |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama, Romance |
loading...
Closer
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.
| Starring | Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Clive Owen |
|---|---|
| Director | Mike Nichols |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 40 mins Blu-ray: 1 hr 44 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Collections | 100 Feisty Females |
| Genres | Audio Descriptive, Drama, Romance |
| Language | DVD: English, English Audio Description Blu-ray: English |
| Dubbed | Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired | English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | DVD: 06 Jun 2005 Blu-ray: 07 May 2007 Production year: 2004 |
| Format | DVD |
-
Critics' reviews (4)
View all -
Closer is adapted by Patrick Marber from his own achingly modish hit play and most of the time, for good or ill, it looks and sounds it. It follows a quartet of absurdly beautiful London urbanites (played by Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen) as their love lives intertwine and they — either deliberately or accidentally — inflict emotional damage on each other. The performances are generally passable (with Owen the standout as the aggressive Larry), while Nichols's superficial but elegant direction and Stephen Goldblatt's glossy cinematography give the story a sheen of sophistication. But the decision not to open out the play for the screen leaves the film feeling oppressive, while the characterisations are, for the most part, paper thin. After the ninth screaming row, you begin to wonder who these people are and why we should care about them.
-
An occasionally insightful drama of adultery and hurtful jealousy among the young and privileged that worked better on stage than it does on film.
-
Most helpful member's review
View all -
81 out of 103 people found this review helpful
Closer or Further? 3.5 Stars
Closer is creepy and honest in the way your still-single chain smoking auntie is creepy and honest; with a cynical heart, and clipped words. Most of the movie revolving around the failure of relationships, the subsequent breakup, the arguments, the betrayals - like watching a year of Coronation street in fast forward. But it's not all that bad - there are some great scenes -- as when Clive Owen follows Julie Roberts around his apartment asking her piercing questions about her affair albeit with hypocritical abandon; watching Natalie Portman amazingly dynamic acting skills, and amazingly dynamic bodice; watching Owen breaking Jude Law's heart with unflinching, but warranted, menace; and others. Jude Law is a little Shakespearian bitch (you know - those guys who talk to their hearts) - and it's only possible to sympathise with him if you forget that he's the cause of his own woes. Julie Roberts, although a strong actor, mopes around this movie like a cardboard, trying too hard not to overtake the film and to understate her performance. This movie comes across as urban professional movie, almost an inverse creation of 'Love Actually' - 'No Love Actually'. Have you ever played 'The Sims' on the computer? I think if the Sims were a tad more aggressive and urban they'd all talk like this. But after all this - I still think it's worth watching - there are worse movies to be had, and I enjoyed watching their IKEA walls come crashing down.
-
Most recent members' review
View all -
3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Closer....to me turning it off
I will start out by saying i wasnt expecting anything great from the film, what i did get was a poor attempt at a dramatic film. Most of the film made no sense at all, it was very hard to understand who was doing what with who. If that makes any sense.
There were some truely vulger parts to the film that were not needed just made the film look worse. To be honset i dont know what the hype was about for the film, but yes it did make me laugh, at how poor it was for the acting talent that was in it. -
News and features
View all
Owen stunned by bad movie scripts
- 17 Sep 2009
Actor Clive Owen is staggered at the amount of money which has been thrown at terrible films during the recession - insisting he has seen many of the worst scripts which have been greenlighted. The Closer star can't believe that Hollywood executives are backing awful ideas in the current turbulent economic climate. Of the scripts he has been receiving recently, Owen tells Details magazine, "They are not very good. And these are films that are funded and ready to go - expensive movies. "You're... Read more
-
Image gallery
View allShowing 1 to 4 of 4
-
-
More like this
View all
Related user collection
My DVD Collection (115)
58.4% from 51 members
Buy from the LOVEFiLM shop
-
-
- Closer - BLU-RAY Version
- Blu-Ray: £8.93
Free Delivery - RRP £17.79 (you save: 50%)
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 ... -
-
-
-
Closer
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 ...
-