Closer [Blu-ray] | ![Closer [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51yebR3QMhL._SL160_.jpg)
enlarge | Director: Mike Nichols Actors: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Nick Hobbs Studio: Sony Pictures Category: DVD
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Rating: 433 reviews Sales Rank: 16453
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen Languages: English (Original Language), Arabic (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Croatian (Subtitled), Czech (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Greek (Subtitled), Hebrew (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), French (Dubbed), Italian (Dubbed) Rating: R (Restricted) Media: Blu-ray Region: 0 Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Number Of Discs: 1 Running Time: 104 Minutes Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.3 x 0.5
MPN: 19436 UPC: 043396194366 EAN: 0043396194366 ASIN: B000NQRV4O
Theatrical Release Date: December 3, 2004 Release Date: May 22, 2007 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping: Expedited shipping available Shipping: International shipping available Condition: Order with confidence - Every single package is shipped with insurance, and domestic packages have Delivery Confirmation. We will email you a confirmation with tracking information before we ship. Many individual CD's and DVD's get upgraded to first class mail to get to you quickly.
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Amazon.com Four extremely beautiful people do extremely horrible things to one another in Closer, Mike Nichols' pungent adaptation of Patrick Marber's play that easily marks the Oscar-winning director's best work in years. Anna (Julia Roberts) is a photographer who specializes in portraits of strangers; Dan (Jude Law) is an obituary writer struggling to become a novelist; Alice (Natalie Portman) is an American stripper freshly arrived in London after a bad relationship; and Larry (Clive Owen) is a dermatologist who finds love under the most unlikely of circumstances. When their paths cross it's a dizzying supernova of emotions, as Nichols and Marber adroitly construct various scenes out of their lives that pair them again and again in various permutations of passion, heartbreak, anger, sadness, vengeance, pleading, deception, and most importantly, brutal honesty. It's only until you're more than halfway through the movie that you'll have to ask yourself exactly why you are watching such a beautifully tragic tale, as Closer is basically the ickiest, grossest, most dysfunctional parts of all your past relationships strung together into one movie. Ultimately, it falls to the four actors to draw you deeper into the story; all succeed relatively, but it's Law and Owen whose characters will cut you to the quick. Law proves that yet again he's most adept at playing charming, amoral bastards with manipulative streaks, and Owen is nothing short of brilliant as the character most turned on by the energy inherent in destructive relationships--whether he's on the giving or receiving end. --Mark Englehart
Product Description Sony Pictures Closer (Blu-ray) Are humans meant to mate for life? What drives someone in a perfectly good relationship to cheat and risk losing the one that theylove 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 issuddenly 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.
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Too close for comfort August 19, 2008 Bradley F. Smith (Miami Beach, FL) Been there, done that. Who hasn't? That's why this movie is so watchable. Most of us, if we admit it, can identify with how these characters seek self gratification, hurt others, realize their mistakes, then go right ahead and make them again and again. We call it real life. Which you don't often get in movies. Highly recommended. But hasn't Jude Law played this same character now several times in movies, as well as at least once that we know about in real life with the babysitter?
Absolutely Appalling... July 28, 2008 Sweetheart414 (Willow Grove, PA) 0 out of 4 found this review helpful
I can't believe what a piece of trash this movie was. Between the pornographic language/images and absurd storyline, how this won or got noimated for anything is beyond me. Whatever possessed such big name actors to take on this cinematic garbage is not something I can understand. Don't see it, you will surely regret it.
A must have movie!!! July 23, 2008 Daniel Mccay (Louisville, Ky) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you are a Julia Roberts fans, then this movie should be in your collection. It's kinda hard to follow, but it's very good!!!!!!
brutal truth July 20, 2008 Dean Silva (Denver, Co) 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
LOOK! It's this simple, the people that give this move 4 stars or less are still either 1. sheltered or 2. jaded. Either way it's an inability to face the facts of what this move represents.... the utter, brutal and cold facts about who we ALL are! Proof again that people don't like the truth! "Truth is a game... we all play to win." As a side note, those who rate this poorly are nothing more than bending, compromising Anna's... a depressive defined as= "they want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out in the world and live... which could be depressing." -Larry (Clive Owen)
Don't waste your time...depressing movie to be avoided July 17, 2008 James W. Barker Jr. (Arlington, VA United States) 0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Don't waste your time on this movie of four emotional cripples. I saw nothing redeeming here, lies, deceit, obsession, codependency, but nothing I'd say meeting even a broad definition of love. Four broken souls living hell on earth. Depressing movie to be avoided.
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