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Closer (2004)

R 12/03/2004 Drama, Romance 1h 44m
68%
User
Score
7.2/10
67%
65/100

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

Overview

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

Mike Nichols

Director

Patrick Marber

Screenplay

Top Billed 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)

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Media

Closer (2004) Official Trailer 1 - Julia Roberts Movie

Closer (2004) Official Trailer 1 - Julia Roberts Movie

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Reviews

A review by tmdb39513728

Written on February 4, 2015

**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-Natali...

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A review by CinemaSerf

Written on April 21, 2024

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 happin...

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A review by Narate

Written on January 1, 2025

"_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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