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Directed by: Mike Nichols

Written by: Patrick Marber

Starring- Jude Law
Clive Owen
Natalie Portman
Julia Roberts

Distributed by Sony Pictures Entertainment

Release date(s) December 3, 2004 (USA)

Running time 98 min.

Language English

Budget $27 million

My Plotline Analysis: Closer, a love story going beyond any other, presents us with four struggling lovers. All tangled in a twisted web of lies, adultry, and dark eroticism. The foursome includes Clive Owen and Julia Roberts as Anna and Larry, and Jude Law and Natalie Portman as Dan and Alice. The plotline, which really just serves as a way for the characters to get around (Pun intended), witnesses each character come in contact with each other by chance. Once Dan meets Anna during a photo shoot for his novel, it's traditional love at first sight. This is really the only thing traditional about this romance. However, Dan is happily indulged in love with Alice, who clings to him with obessed passion. Then, as a prank, Dan lures Larry into a meeting with Anna, who actually happens to be at the rendevous by some miraculous chance. The film thus continues from here, as the characters clash, switching partners, seeking their true loves, or just excepting their fates.


Grade
A-

This is a disturbing movie about sex, lies, affairs and everything else that destroys people's lives. The tagline for this film is absolutely perfect: "If you believe in love at first sight, you never stop looking." It's so accurate, it's scary. Mike Nichols helms this film and makes it very different than his previous films. His film The Graduate deals with affairs and such, but not to the extent this film does.

Adapted by Patrick Marber from a novel by Patrick Marber, this story is very good. Patrick Marber released a similar story last year (2006) about relationships that end because of affairs, Notes on a Scandal. With this film, Mike Nichols can rid his goody-goody image and finally be looked at as a serious director who is not afraid of taking risks. He has had previous risky films like The Graduate and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, but nothing like this.

This film has some of the best and most intriguing scenes in recent history and this is mostly because the cast was phenomenal. Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen and Natalie Portman were fantastic (with Owen and Portman winning the Globe and nominated for Oscars). There is no established protagonist(s) in this film. This is probably because they are all antagonists. They are all likeable at one point and are all despised at one point, also. Natalie Portman gives the best supporting performance by a female I have seen in a long time.



With the subject matter of this film one can conclude that it is not appropriate for young children or even teens for that matter (although I have seen it). It also might not appeal to people who have been through an affair because this film is very descriptive when it comes down to the sexual content. If you can get past the uncomfortableness, this film is brilliantly written and spot-on, also.

One of the best films of 2004, Mike Nichols brings us a film that is scary. Not scary because of man-eating monsters, but because this story is very real. People might think this film is a little exaggerative of the real world, but it really isn't, that's the sad thing. a bravo to the cast and Mike Nichols.

A must see for two really strong performances alone.

SEX, SEX, SEX! That's the main part of this movie. All sex. sex-related dialogue, even, and tons of it. This movie is usually pretty funny but suffers in a few places.

I found it kind of short, actually. At 98 minutes running time, this one is a quickie. But it's actually rather good, made good by Clive Owen and Natalie Portman. These two are fantastic actors. But the rest of the film seemed sort of rushed and tedious. I guess it was just a serious-minded drama, even though it tried in some places to be a comedy. It wasn't a bad movie, just sort of average with some stellar perfromances from its Oscar nomines.

Oh, and Natalie Portman is officially very cute! Even though she has been since Garden State...

:fresh: 2.5/4. I had wanted to view this for the longest time,but I never got around to it. I just fininshed and I came out of it pretty good. It was alot better than lasts nights dissapointment I had in "Little Children". Its the story of 4 people who meet,fall in love, and betray each other. It stars Clive Owen Natalie Portman Jude Law and Julia Roberts (in order of best performance). Director Mike Nichols is a very interesting director for me. He puts out possibly one of the best films in "The Graduate" 40 years ago and he still puts out good films. After the sucess of The Graduate one would think he could just retire. Nichols obviously loves what he does so he keeps doing it.

Not bad. The dialougue felt very real and was engaging but i somehow felt the situations were too 'made-for-tv'. the acting was all very good but i wasn't sold on julia roberts.

Dan is an obituary writer for a London newspaper. One inauspicious day, Dan witnesses a car accident where a beautiful lady is struck by a car. Dan rushes the girl to the hospital and instantly falls in love with her. He writes a book about the girl, Alice, and sets-up a photo session with a photographer for his book. When Dan meets the photographer, he falls in love with her. Through strange interactions, Dan lures a dermatologist into this vicious love triangle. The dermatologist falls in love with the photographer as well and then everything gets out of whack.

"I wanted to kill you."
"I thought you wanted to fuck me."
"Don't get lippy."

Mike Nichols, director of Whose Afraid of Virginia Wolf, The Graduate, Biloxi Blues, Working Girl, Wolf, The Birdcage, and the upcoming Charlie Wilson's War (Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and Ned Beatty), delivers Closer. The storyline for this picture was interesting and sad. Closer is a film that keeps the audience in anticipation of how anything good can come from the conclusion. There is an abundance of twists and turns throughout the film that keeps the ending in doubt.

"I'm not a whore."
"I wouldn't pay you."

Anna's photo shoot with Dan and then Alice, the internet sex sequence, the aquarium encounter, the cupid reference, Larry and Anna's argument/break-up regarding Anna having sex with Dan, Alice the stripper, Dan visiting the dermatologist, the hotel room argument, and the pass port epiphany were amongst the better portions of the film.

"Am I a stranger?"
"No. You're a job."

The cast for this picture is amazing and includes Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, and Clive Owen. Natalie Portman is amongst my favorite actresses. I will do my best to see all of her films throughout what looks to be a marvelous career. Closer was a compelling film that was surprisingly sad. There would seem to be rays of hope sprinkled throughout the picture; however, happiness is not meant to be for our characters.

"She has the moronic beauty of youth, but she's sly."

Grade: B+