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6.8/10 • 3.6K

2004-12-031h 44m

DramaRomance

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

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

Directors
Mike Nichols
Editors
John Bloom

Top Billed Cast

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  1. Jude Law

    Jude Law

    Dan

  2. Natalie Portman

    Natalie Portman

    Alice

  3. Julia Roberts

    Julia Roberts

    Anna

  4. Clive Owen

    Clive Owen

    Larry

  5. Colin Stinton

    Colin Stinton

    Customs Officer

  6. Nick Hobbs

    Nick Hobbs

    Taxi Driver

  7. Steve Benham

    Steve Benham

    Car Driver (uncredited)

  8. Elizabeth Bower

    Elizabeth Bower

    Chatty Exhibition Guest (uncredited)

  9. Daniel Dresner

    Daniel Dresner

    Coughing Man (uncredited)

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Feb 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-Natalie. Jude falls for Natalie, introduces her to Julia who gets intimate with her camera. The Jude-Clive-Julia triangle is a clever one. Clive is introduced when Jude seduces him online pretending to be Julia who he meets at the aquarium. Often when a movie script or stage play adheres to a strict formula, it turns out flat and predictable. Not Closer. Applying a quadrangular network forces each character to cover all the bases, tagging up every way possible, pushing each juncture to the limit.

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Status
Released
Original Language
English
Budget
$27,000,000.00
Revenue
$115,505,027.00
Keywords
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