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Closer

  • 2004
  • R
  • 1h 44m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
227K
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Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, and Clive Owen in Closer (2004)
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DramaRomance

The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.The relationships of two couples become complicated and deceitful when the man from one couple meets the woman of the other.

  • Director
    • Mike Nichols
  • Writer
    • Patrick Marber
  • Stars
    • Natalie Portman
    • Jude Law
    • Clive Owen
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    227K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    1,001
    111
    • Director
      • Mike Nichols
    • Writer
      • Patrick Marber
    • Stars
      • Natalie Portman
      • Jude Law
      • Clive Owen
    • 1KUser reviews
    • 202Critic reviews
    • 65Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 2 Oscars
      • 22 wins & 50 nominations total

    Videos7

    Closer
    Trailer 2:32
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    Closer Scene: Everybody Wants To Be Happy
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    Closer Scene: A Big, Fat Lie
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    Closer Scene: The Aquarium
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    Closer Scene: Obituaries
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    Closer Scene: The Kiss
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    Julia Roberts in Closer (2004)
    Julia Roberts and Mike Nichols in Closer (2004)
    Jude Law and Natalie Portman in Closer (2004)
    Natalie Portman and Julia Roberts in Closer (2004)
    Julia Roberts and Mike Nichols in Closer (2004)
    Julia Roberts in Closer (2004)
    Julia Roberts and Clive Owen in Closer (2004)
    Clive Owen in Closer (2004)
    Jude Law and Julia Roberts in Closer (2004)
    Jude Law and Julia Roberts in Closer (2004)
    Jude Law and Natalie Portman in Closer (2004)
    Jude Law, Natalie Portman, and Mike Nichols in Closer (2004)

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    Natalie Portman
    Natalie Portman
    • Alice
    Jude Law
    Jude Law
    • Dan
    Clive Owen
    Clive Owen
    • Larry
    Julia Roberts
    Julia Roberts
    • Anna
    Nick Hobbs
    Nick Hobbs
    • Taxi Driver
    Colin Stinton
    Colin Stinton
    • Customs Officer
    Steve Benham
    • Car driver
    • (uncredited)
    Elizabeth Bower
    Elizabeth Bower
    • Chatty Exhibition Guest
    • (uncredited)
    Rene Costa
    Rene Costa
    • Club Gangster
    • (uncredited)
    Ray Donn
    • Customs Officer
    • (uncredited)
    Daniel Dresner
    Daniel Dresner
    • Coughing Man
    • (uncredited)
    Rrenford Fitz-Junior Fagan
    • Bus Passenger
    • (uncredited)
    Antony Gabriel
    • Luke
    • (uncredited)
    Michael Haley
    • Smoking Man
    • (uncredited)
    Steve Morphew
    Steve Morphew
    • Bartender
    • (uncredited)
    Abdul Popoola Pope
    Abdul Popoola Pope
    • Doctor
    • (uncredited)
    Jacqui-Lee Pryce
    Jacqui-Lee Pryce
    • Traveller
    • (uncredited)
    Peter Rnic
    Peter Rnic
    • Bodyguard
    • (uncredited)
    • Director
      • Mike Nichols
    • Writer
      • Patrick Marber
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      At the beginning of filming, Natalie Portman gave Julia Roberts a necklace that said "cunt" in honor of their characters' foul mouths. At the end of filming, Roberts gave Portman a necklace that said "lil' cunt".
    • Goofs
      When Anna photographs a weeping Alice, she's using a 35mm Leica camera. However, at the gallery exhibition , the picture of Anna is a full frame, medium format print complete with black borders. Therefore, it was shot with a much less unwieldy instrument.
    • Quotes

      Larry: Alice, tell me something true.

      Alice: Lying's the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off - but it's better if you do.

    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Closer/National Treasure/The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie/Bad Education (2004)
    • Soundtracks
      The Blower's Daughter
      Written and Performed by Damien Rice

      Under license to Vector Recordings, LLC/Warner Bros. Records Inc. and 14th Floor Records

      By Arrangement with Warner Strategic Marketing US and Warner Strategic Marketing UK

    User reviews1K

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    4-Braided
    I prefer when a movie is a movie. But when a movie is a very good play, we should be happy as well because there just aren't that many good things around.

    This is a play, there's no mistaking. All the dynamics in it are seated in the words, all the motives in the four beings. There is no cinematic device used or necessary, except the revealing of the passport at the end, and I am sure that was handled differently in the stage version.

    Mike Nichols makes a living out of taking constructions that work well on the stage and adding a few cinematic glosses so that the thing gives the impression it was born as a screen being. I find his tricks in this regard distracting, even a bit offensive because he hasn't adapted as the visual vocabulary has.

    Never mind. Just eliminate the film components of its being and focus on the stage components and you still have something worthwhile, because here Nichols is still fresh.

    You can read other folks to learn the story. It hardly matters. What matters to me is the clever, deep way the writer has constructed the thing. The visceral effect is from the panic and desperation of love. Nothing new there. What makes this effective, I think, are two things. Writerly things.

    The first is that he hasn't just described the tippy balance of living in a romance. He hasn't just displayed the radical fuzziness and unpredictability of a world where that is all you know. He's made it the root of the story. This story has absolutely none of the logic to it that you expect when you see a love story. Everything seems real and natural after it has happened, but there's no way at all to predict what will happen next when you are in the thing. Its a great help in storytelling; you have to cling fast to what is happening. Its the best type of engagement, sucking you in by simply making you wonder, even worry about what is going to happen next. Its rare. Its good.

    I'd like to point out how the four characters are constructed. A popular writing technique is to take one whole soul and break it into bits. Then the bits can get fleshed out imperfectly and interact so that the interaction has a being. In this case, start with a movie. What four pieces do you need? The writer (Dan), the photographer (Anna), the actor (Alice) and the director, the person concerned with the "skin" of the thing.

    Its no accident, I think that it is impossible to settle on any one of these characters. You can go through this experience time and time again, each time tracing a different person's path, or the path of a relationship or even an urge.

    This part is great too. Apart from Nichols' cinematic naivety, there's only one blot: Julia Roberts. She just doesn't understand what it means to be part of an assembly. She's not an actress in the real sense, the theatrical sense that Nichols knows how to sculpt. No wonder he wanted Cate Blanchett instead.

    Ted's Evaluation -- 3 of 3: Worth watching.
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    10
    • tedg
    • Jan 15, 2007

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    • Is this film based on a novel?
    • What's the exact name of the street and the park that Alice and Dan walk into at the beginning of the movie?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • December 3, 2004 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • United Kingdom
    • Official site
      • Sony Pictures
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Xích Lại Gần Nhau
    • Filming locations
      • Postman's Park, Little Britain, London, England, UK(park with Alice Ayres tablet)
    • Production companies
      • Columbia Pictures
      • Inside Track 2
      • Aquarium Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $27,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $33,987,757
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $7,707,972
      • Dec 5, 2004
    • Gross worldwide
      • $115,505,027
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 44 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • DTS
      • Dolby Digital
      • SDDS
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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