Closer

2004

Action / Drama / Romance

97
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 81% · 207 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 81% · 100K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 249432 249.4K

infidelity secret love love triangle husband wife relationship cheating parent child relationship

Plot summary

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

Director

Mike Nichols Photo
Mike Nichols

Top cast

Natalie Portman Photo
Natalie Portman as Alice
Jacqui-Lee Pryce Photo
Jacqui-Lee Pryce as Traveller
Julia Roberts Photo
Julia Roberts as Anna
Jude Law Photo
Jude Law as Dan
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
810.95 MB
1280*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 39
1.91 GB
1920*1040
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 39

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by redlips-04219 7 / 10

I Love & Hate it

This movie is a big game of narcissistic people who treat each other as puppets. There is no love, no truth, no good. In the beginning we all try to find a hero in the story, someone to sympathize with only to realize what we have is a bunch of mentally ill people making themselves suffer. Dan (Jude Law) is just a big kid longing for attention and a new toy, which he only cares for about 5 mins. Anna (Julia Roberts) is also desperate for attention and love since her ex left her for a younger girl. She is confused and unreasonable, her ego makes all the decisions instead of her mind. Larry (Clive Owen) is an agressive jerk, playing along Dan's little game, while Alice is just a naive, traumatized, young girl who falls in love and decides to avoid all the red flags and becomes part of this sick 4 some. Brilliant movie. Honestly not the ending what I hoped for tho (I just wanted all 4 of them together in a room while Slim Pickens rides the atom bomb there).
Reviewed by blanche-2 5 / 10

Farther

I couldn't wait to see this movie. Now, I realize I should have waited to see this movie until it could be rented.This is a very cold film about some very unpleasant people who don't seem to be able to make up their minds about much. I liked the way it was done, I loved the acting, and I loved the use of "Cosi Fan Tutte" throughout the film. Yet it left me feeling empty. I never saw the play, but I imagine it was quite powerful. As a film, it had a deadly detachment.Certainly when one looks at a film like Virginia Woolf, also based on a play, also directed by Mike Nichols, also about some unpleasant people, one wonders why Woolf came off so well and this one didn't (for me, anyway). I think it's because Virginia Woolf is an incredible love story - at the end, when George explains that they're childless, and Martha says "We couldn't" [have a baby], one realizes what's underneath all of the unpleasantness. In "Closer," there's just no payoff. Four people change partners, hurt one another, are seemingly incapable of doing anything else, but no one tells us why. Only the Natalie Portman character shows some humanity. But some isn't enough.Mike Nichols is a fabulous director, but the direction wasn't the problem here. It's the characterizations. I can't agree with some of the other posters that the film was fascinating. I didn't find it so. The theater was packed because of good reviews. I suppose the critics are hungry for something intelligent, and obviously the ticket-buying audience is, and who can blame them? But don't tell me this is the best you can come up with. When everybody walks out of the theater complaining, as they did after the showing I attended, there's a problem.
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