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Closer

"If you believe in love at first sight, you never stop looking."

2004-12-03 Drama 1hr 44m

A love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Four strangers - with one thing in common: each other.

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A love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Four strangers - with one thing in common: each other.

  • Released
    2004-12-03
  • Revenue
    $115,505,027
  • Budget
    $27,000,000
  • Runtime
    1hr 44m
  • Genre
    Drama, Romance
  • Status
    Released
  • Language
    English
  • imdb-logo
    7.2
  • Production
    Columbia Pictures, Inside Track

Crew

Mike Nichols
Director
Patrick Marber
Screenplay
John Calley
Producer
Keywords:
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Cast

Jude Law

Jude Law
Dan
Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman
Alice
Julia Roberts

Julia Roberts
Anna
Clive Owen

Clive Owen
Larry
Colin Stinton

Colin Stinton
Customs Officer
Nick Hobbs

Nick Hobbs
Taxi Driver
Steve Benham

Steve Benham
Car Driver (uncredited)
Elizabeth Bower

Elizabeth Bower
Chatty Exhibition Guest (uncredited)
Daniel Dresner

Daniel Dresner
Coughing Man (uncredited)
Rrenford Junior Fagan

Rrenford Junior Fagan
Bus Passenger (uncredited)
Antony Gabriel

Antony Gabriel
Luke (uncredited)
Michael Haley

Michael Haley
Smoking Man (uncredited)
Selena Mars

Selena Mars
Traveler (uncredited)
Steve Morphew

Steve Morphew
Bartender (uncredited)
Peter Rnic

Peter Rnic
Bodyguard (uncredited)
Robert Stone

Robert Stone
Bouncer (uncredited)
Jacqui-Lee Pryce

Jacqui-Lee Pryce
Traveller (uncredited)
Rene Costa

Rene Costa
Club Gangster (uncredited)

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A Review by tmdb39513728

Written by tmdb39513728 on 2015-02-04

**Menage a Quatre** You may like _Closer_ because of its flawed characters and their doomed relationships. I like it because it's square.... read more

**Menage a Quatre** You may like _Closer_ because of its flawed characters and their doomed relationships. I like it because it's square. The assorted combinations of love and friendship, scorn and resentment, among two males and two females are literally geometrical. Typically, the dependable love triangle pits three characters together, often a heterosexual convention establishing a male lead zig-zagging between two females, or a female lead choosing between two male suitors. What if we include an extra character? How many triangles can be made with four individuals? Four! And _Closer_ expertly covers them all. Next time you see it, draw out a square with each character occupying a corner. Then connect each of the couplings and triangles as they occur, beginning with Julia-Jude-Natalie. Jude falls for Natalie, introduces her to Julia who gets intimate with her camera. The Jude-Clive-Julia triangle is a clever one. Clive is introduced when Jude seduces him online pretending to be Julia who he meets at the aquarium. Often when a movie script or stage play adheres to a strict formula, it turns out flat and predictable. Not _Closer_. Applying a quadrangular network forces each character to cover all the bases, tagging up every way possible, pushing each juncture to the limit.

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A Review by Geronimo1967 7

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2024-04-21

Writer "Dan" (Jude Law) likes to spend his evenings, when not with his American girlfriend "Alice" (Natalie Portman), teasing other blokes o... read more

Writer "Dan" (Jude Law) likes to spend his evenings, when not with his American girlfriend "Alice" (Natalie Portman), teasing other blokes on sex-chat sites. One night he sets up doctor "Larry" (Clive Owen) with a promise to meet at the aquarium with "Anna". The horned up physician duly turns up, only to discover that meantime "Dan" has vengefully despatched the real "Anna" (Julia Roberts) - his part time lover/photographer, to unknowingly meet him instead. Embarrassed looks, sighs and "Larry" feels like a prat but, maybe the outwardly rather aloof "Anna" is interested? What now ensues is all a bit entertainingly far-fetched as an unwitting ménage-à-quatre emerges, becoming increasingly more intimate, then loving, then manipulatively toxic. Are any of these people destined to find happiness with any of the others. Quite frankly, do they deserve it and do we care? I've always found Owen as wooden as a washboard, but here - especially sharing the screen with an on-form Portman, he actually seems to be able to act (a little). His character, I found, comfortably the most odious of the four. Portman is the star of the show, though. Her portrayal of the needy sex kitten vacillates from provocative to desperate with a compelling ease. There's frequently some vitriol in the writing and the juggled storylines well paced as this story of unlikeable people moves along quickly. I think this might work well on stage, it has a characterful intensity to it, but on screen it's well worth a watch - even if it's all a pretty grim appraisal of human behaviour.

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A Review by Narate 6

Written by Narate on 2025-01-01

"_What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world._" Unpleasant people: The movie! I couldn't bel... read more

"_What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world._" Unpleasant people: The movie! I couldn't believe I hadn't seen this yet and now that I have I have 2 thoughts. First thought is that these 4 really did acted their parts well in this and second... I felt nothing for them by the end.

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A Review by tmdb39513728

**Menage a Quatre** You may like _Closer_ because of its flawed characters and their doomed relationships. I like it because it's square. The assorted combinations of love and friendship, scorn and resentment, among two males and two fem...

reviewer avatar

A Review by tmdb39513728

Written by tmdb39513728 on 2015-02-04

**Menage a Quatre** You may like _Closer_ because of its flawed characters and their doomed relationships. I like it because it's square. The assorted combinations of love and friendship, scorn and...

read more
reviewer avatar

A Review by Geronimo1967 7

Written by Geronimo1967 on 2024-04-21

Writer "Dan" (Jude Law) likes to spend his evenings, when not with his American girlfriend "Alice" (Natalie Portman), teasing other blokes on sex-chat sites. One night he sets up doctor "Larry" (Clive...

read more
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A Review by Narate 6

Written by Narate on 2025-01-01

"_What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world._" Unpleasant people: The movie! I couldn't believe I hadn't seen this yet and now that I have I have 2 tho...

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