Closed Circuit (2013)

A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy.

Director:

John Crowley

Writer:

Steven Knight (screenplay) (as Steve Knight)

Stars:

Eric Bana, Rebecca Hall, Jim Broadbent

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Kate Lock	...	Mother
Katherine Press	...	Pregnant Daughter
Patrick Warner	...	Young Man on Cellphone
Ricky Nixon	...	Fish Trader
Daniel Tuite	...	Drinks Trader
Zora Bishop	...	Mother of Toddler
Vicky Jam	...	Teenage Girl
Zahra Ahmadi	...	Woman on Cellphone
Steve North	...	Angry Trader (as Stephen North)
Denis Moschitto	...	Farroukh Erdogan
Pinar Ögün	...	Ilkay Erdogan
Hasancan Cifci	...	Emir Erdogan
Andrew Havill	...	News Reporter 1
James Lowe	...	Simon Fellowes
Jim Broadbent	...	Attorney General

Storyline

A high-profile terrorism case unexpectedly binds together two ex-lovers on the defense team - testing the limits of their loyalties and placing their lives in jeopardy.

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Plot Keywords:

female frontal nudity | cover up | terrorist attack | explosion | surveilance video | 

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Taglines:

They see your every move

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language and brief violence

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

UK USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

28 August 2013 (USA)

Also Known As:

Unter Beobachtung

Filming Locations:

London, England, UK

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$3,116,885 (USA) (30 August 2013)

Gross:

$5,733,310 (USA) (20 September 2013)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Focus Features, Working Title Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Datasat Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Jim Broadbent played in the 1995 movie "Richard III" with a young Robert Downey, Jr., who would go on to play the Marvel super-hero character Iron Man. In this movie he plays alongside Eric Bana who played another Marvel super hero in 2004's "Hulk".

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Goofs

when Martin leaves the message warning Claudia to meet him, he says "ditch your phone, etc" but when Claudia listens to the message in her room it just says, "Claudia it's me. Turn off your phone, dump your bag, dump everything, and meet me at the first place I took you to. The first place I took you to." But when Claudia gets to her room and listens to the message just a minute or two later, the message she hears says, "Claudia, if your home, get out of there. Please meet me at the first place I took you to." A much shorter and different message.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Mother: [walking in a busy market square] You really will have to rethink your lifestyle, you know?
Pregnant Daughter: What lifestyle are you taking about, mum?
Mother: Wine only on Fridays. And try to think about dark green vegetables.
Young Man on Cellphone: [appearing another video monitor] So really, that's the same as saying we'll never see each other again. Well it is. It just is.
Woman on Cellphone: [on another monitor] How can I do anything if I don't know what you want?
Teenage Girl: [in the background] She was so upset about it, and I said to her, "Look," I said, "...

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Connections

Featured in Chelsea Lately: Episode #7.127 (2013)

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Soundtracks

Double Barrel
(Dave Barker, Ansell Collins & Winston Riley)
Performed by Dave & Ansell Collins
Courtesy of Trojan Records/Sanctuary Music Group
Under License from Universal Music Operations Ltd. and Westbury Music Ltd. o/b/o Techniques Records

User Reviews

Intense, suspenseful but most importantly of all, it leaves you thinking.

After seeing this film you'll find even the low ratings it's received on IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes to be strangely suspicious. It just leaves you questioning all of the things you really need to be question right now, especially with the current trial of the recent Boston Bombings. The whole movie actually holds an eerie resemblance to the whole case and does put certain ideas out there. Which is exactly where they need to be. Out here, with us, in the public. But in the end it's JUST movie, right? I see it as more of a message. It was brilliant and exactly what the world needs right now. Not only was the message perfect, but the movie was suspenseful and intense and so far the reviews don't seem to match up to the movie I saw... What's going on here, did we actually see the same movie!? I guess perception is what determines that one.