After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie, who is now married. The relationship between Richard and Natalie proves dangerously obsessional. ...
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Cast
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| Alan Rickman | ... | Sinclair / Natalie's husband | |
| Clive Owen | ... | Richard / Brother | |
| Saskia Reeves | ... | Natalie / Sister | |
| Karl Johnson | ... | Colin | |
| Lesley Sharp | ... | Jessica | |
| Kate Gartside | ... | Paula | |
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Karen Knight | ... | Philippa |
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Niall Buggy | ... | Geof |
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Campbell Morrison | ... | Scotsman |
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Annie Hayes | ... | Receptionist |
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Maxwell Hutcheon | ... | Interviewee |
| Geraldine Somerville | ... | Natalie's Boss | |
| Helen FitzGerald | ... | Scottish Girl | |
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Christopher Barr | ... | Noley |
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Gordon Salkilld | ... | Hotel Porter |
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After some years of tension, Richard begins a sexual relationship with his sister Natalie, who is now married. The relationship between Richard and Natalie proves dangerously obsessional. Their private intensity (& working class origins) contrast with the middle-class, inhibited, stuffy public scenes we see in the Richmond world into which Natalie has moved with her marriage. As the guilt and intensity of the siblings increases we seem to be heading for disaster, especially when Natalie's husband Sinclair finds out. Written by Moray McConnachie <cerberus@ermine.ox.ac.uk>
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brother sister incest | incest | brother sister sex | train station | female full frontal nudity |Taglines:
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22 November 1991 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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$135,893Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
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Natalie: You're late.
Richard: Sorry, it was unavoidable, trains on Sunday, you know what they're like.
Natalie: Unavoidable? I don't believe it. I've eaten all the food.
Richard: You've eaten all the food? Now that's serious.
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(uncredited)
Music by Frank McDonald and Chris Rae
De Wolfe Music Ltd
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Alan Rickman gets top billing on the credits and on the poster, despite not getting nearly as much screentime as Clive Owen, possibly because Rickman was known more to international audiences, due to his roles in Die Hard (1988) and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991). See more »Goofs
When Natalie and Richard are fighting on the country lane, there is a rip in the right shoulder of her jacket. When they get back to the party, the rip has gone. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Natalie: You're late.
Richard: Sorry, it was unavoidable, trains on Sunday, you know what they're like.
Natalie: Unavoidable? I don't believe it. I've eaten all the food.
Richard: You've eaten all the food? Now that's serious.
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Rio Carnival(uncredited)
Music by Frank McDonald and Chris Rae
De Wolfe Music Ltd
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The subject of incest, between an adult man and his sister, will immediately put off many potential movie watchers, but for those not turned away easily, Close My Eyes succeeds as a sociological study, and should be commended for its hypnotic depiction of very difficult subject matter.
How many times have we seen, or imagined, an inappropriate flirtation from a woman, at a time when circumstances have left her emotionally distraught? That this flirtation of Natalie (Saskia Reeves) should find its way to her own younger brother Richard (Clive Owen) immediately jump starts the story into somewhat previously uncharted water.
Perhaps incest is a drug, not unlike and somewhere between alcohol and heroin, and certainly the intensity of the feelings, the desire, as portrayed between the two translates to us as such. It is this undeniable intensity that is the strength, perhaps the honesty of the film.
Alan Rickman, is brilliant, as usual, in a smallish role as Natalie's husband.