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Genres:
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Drama /
Romance
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Release:
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Director:
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Mike Nichols
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Actors:
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Colin Stinton,
Nick Hobbs,
Natalie Portman,
Jude Law,
Julia Roberts,
Clive Owen
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Duration:
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104 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)183.5
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Plot Summary:
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In London, the renewed new chum Alice Ayres meets the mediocre obituary journalist Daniel and they move together. Dan writes a soft-cover, inspired in the zing of Alice, and while photographing as the let of the book, he meets the photographer Anna. Dan "introduces" the dermatologist Larry to Anna, and they get married. However, Dan and Anna take a sexual business, complicating the relationship of the couples.
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Tags:
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Closer
Everything about Closer just about screams "adult." It's got Mike Nichols as director and four accomplished actors in the cast. It's got a play celebrated for a scabrous view of human relationships as source material and a hard R for "graphic sexual dialogue, nudity/sexuality and language" as a rating. It's all dressed up but, frankly, it's got nowhere of interest to go.
For what this investigation of four people obsessed with each other (and not in a good way) lacks is a compelling reason to see it. Despite involved acting from Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen and Nichols' impeccable professionalism as a director, the end result is, to quote one of the characters, "a bunch of sad strangers photographed beautifully."
Closer's difficu...
Nastiest film of the year?
I'm amazing this nasty, mean-spirited piece of work is so popular. The characters and acting are both empty and devoid of any redeeming features. Contrary to the opinion of the Oscar voters, the acting is dreadful with an instantly forgettable turn from Jude Law and if what Clive Owen is doing in this film is anything akin to acting then my Russell Grant might be the next Bond. He shows the same facial expression for happy as he does for angry/sad/faintly baffled/smelling a fart though perhaps his performance is too subtle for the likes of me. All in all a thoroughly depressing and, to my mind, unrealistic look at the state of modern relationships and not a patch on the stage version.
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