Closer DVD

A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions and casual betrayals. A critically acclaimed look at four strangers - with one thing in common: each other.

"Two thumbs way up. Ebert & Roeper

Editor's Note

Are humans meant to mate for life? What drives someone in a perfectly good relationship to cheat and risk losing the one that they love and that loves them? Is it possible to love more than one person at the same time? How well does anyone really know the one that they love? Directed by Mike Nichols (THE GRADUATE, BIRDCAGE, WORKING GIRL), CLOSER questions the nature of relationships and fidelity as it follows the tangled web created by Dan (Jude Law), Alice (Natalie Portman), Anna (Julia Roberts), and Larry (Clive Owen). Dan, a British writer of obituaries, and Alice, a young American stripper, meet in the film's opening scene when a London cab runs her down. Cut to a year later: Dan and Alice are now a couple, but he is suddenly smitten with Anna, a beautiful American photographer. In an ironic twist of fate, Anna meets Larry, a British doctor, and they are soon a couple, despite Dan's continuing obsession. But the entanglements don't end there, and ultimately, someone is sure to get hurt. The four players do justice to a script that is humorous, raw and disarmingly honest about adult relationships.

Features

DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled, French, No Longer Produced

Technical Info

Release Information
	Studio: Sony
	Release Date: 4/25/2006
	Running Time: 104 minutes
	Original Release Date: 2004
	Catalog ID: 04847
	UPC: 00043396048478
	Number of Discs: 1
Audio & Video
	Original Language: English
	Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed
	Available Subtitles: French
	Video: Color

Cast & Crew

	Clive Owen
	Colin Stinton
	Jude Law
	Julia Roberts
	Natalie Portman
	Nick Hobbs
	John Bloom - Editor
	Mike Nichols - Director
	Mike Nichols - Producer
	Patrick Marber - Based On Play By
	Robert Fox - Executive Producer
	Stephen Goldblatt - Cinematographer
	Tim Hatley - Production Designer

Awards

Oscar (2005)
	Clive Owen, Nominee, Best Supporting Actor
	Natalie Portman, Nominee, Best Supporting Actress
Golden Globe (2005)
	Clive Owen, Winner, Best Supporting Actor
	Natalie Portman, Winner, Best Supporting Actress
	Mike Nichols, Nominee, Best Director
British Academy Awards (2005)
	Clive Owen, Winner, Best Supporting Actor

Professional Reviews

New York Times
"The verbal intercourse that dominates that scene and every other in the film is vigorous, compulsive, sometimes painful and occasionally funny." p.E1

USA Today
"All the actors do fine work, but Owen's quixotic and brooding quality is particularly effective here." 12/03/2004 p.8E

Rolling Stone
"[T]he haunting, hypnotic CLOSER vibrates with eroticism, bruising laughs and dynamite performances from four attractive actors doing decidedly unattractive things." 12/09/2004 p.189

Entertainment Weekly
"The place, the costumes, the staging of sexual provocation and betrayal are refined studies in luxurious understatement." 12/10/2004 p.63-4

Film Comment
"[Portman is] the film's most enigmatic character..." 01/01/2005 p.72

Uncut
"[T]his is an engrossing, anti-romantic movie about that bloody fist of an organ, the human heart." 02/01/2005 p.99

Chicago Sun-Times
"They are all so very articulate, which is refreshing..." 12/03/2004 p.27

Sight and Sound
"[The performances] are strong and display a readiness to engage in the ugliness of the parts. Julia Roberts is refreshingly understated." 02/01/2005 p.45-7

Ultimate DVD
3 stars out of 5 -- "A faithful screen adaptation of Patrick Marber's play....It's witty and well performed..." 12/01/2007 p.85

James Berardinelli's ReelViews 8 of 10
Portman, in what has been called her first truly adult role (it's certainly nowhere close to Quee - James Berardinelli

Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
What is unique about "Closer," making it seem right for these insincere times, is that the character - Roger Ebert

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