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68% Tomatometer 210 Reviews 81% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings Alice (Natalie Portman), an American stripper who has moved to London, meets Dan (Jude Law) on the street. While looking at him, a taxi hits her. After taking her to the hospital, Dan begins dating Alice. A year later, Dan -- who has written a novel about Alice -- is bored. He flirts with photographer Anna (Julia Roberts). Pretending to be her in a chat room, he leads dermatologist Larry (Clive Owen) to an accidental meeting with Anna. As the years pass, both relationships disintegrate. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Buy Now

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Closer's talented cast and Mike Nichols' typically assured direction help smooth a bumpy journey from stage to screen.

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Closer | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Nell Minow Common Sense Media Searing story of betrayal isn't for kids. Rated: 3/5 Dec 22, 2010 Full Review Closer | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Radheyan Simonpillai AskMen.com Closer is no joke and it's got the brave, mature performances of an all-star cast to prove it. It's a movie in which characters feel each other up with their hands and knock each other down with words. Rated: 74/100 Jun 7, 2010 Full Review Closer | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Todd McCarthy Variety Like dramas by Pinter and others, what seems trenchant and perfectly pitched in the theater can come off as arch even when skillfully transferred to film. Mar 19, 2009 Full Review Closer | Rotten Tomatoes (4) David Walsh World Socialist Web Site 'People are filthy, they're not worth lifting a finger for.' Closer conveys this sentiment more powerfully than anything else. Feb 15, 2021 Full Review Closer | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Tom Meek Cambridge Day Clive Owen gives the deepest and most emotionally nuanced performance as a dermatologist desperate for love and loyalty, and Natalie Portman is a close second as the coy stripper beholden to Jude Law's self-centered, stalled writer. Rated: 3/4 Apr 6, 2020 Full Review Closer | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Tim Stevens The Spool Closer's world is a gentle one, a place of kindness. It is these people who are bringing spite into it. Jan 18, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Dylan C I loved this movie. The unhinged performance from Clive Owen made this movie for me. Some of the dialogue that he delivered had me howling. The movie itself paints a morbid picture of relationships and the worst of human behavior. Based on a play the script and acting was very much like a play but that doesn't deter from the movie but in fact enhances it in my opinion. Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 04/23/24 Full Review George Hey look, real people in a movie! The dialogue in this is stellar. The characters are both believable and hate-able in how they converse, and act. This really does feel like a stage play on the big screen, but in the best way. Clive and Julia's big fight is top tier stuff. Hard to watch, but the barbs feel so true. People say "marriage story" is the best at depicting fights, but I found it too showy and pretentious. It was like watching people act. This is like watching real people hate themselves, and try to connect with people at the same time. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/15/24 Full Review Al N I'd rather watch Theadore Rex over Closer again, I would take Double Dragon over watching Closer, I'd take Surf Ninjas over Closer, I'd take the entire Problem Child saga over Closer. Hell, I'd rather watch every single Uwe Boll film in a row than watch Closer. None of this is meant to compliment to those abominations of Cinema so much as articulate my distaste for this film. Why do I hate this film? It's boring melodrama for the sake of being boring mellowdrama. That in of itself is'nt so bad, it's the fact that (like it's fans) it pretends to be matchure, or serious. Whoever wrote this actually thought this overglorified Lifetime Channel Movie had anything interesting to say about infidelity or relationships in general. Spoiler! It does not. For that sin alone, it deserves ire. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/24 Full Review M L Messed up story of 2 little boys, who haven't grown up and have no clue about relationships. Natalie Portman and Julia Roberts were great. Rated 1.5/5 Stars • Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/24 Full Review Timothy D The script for this movie was vicious. Thanks to powerful acting performances, Closer is a flamboyantly assaulting romance. I found its kurt, biting approach refreshing as each couples' truth found its own way through trying circ*mstance. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/31/23 Full Review Noam Y this movie proves that you should'nt watch movies only because of the cast. Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 12/09/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Synopsis Alice (Natalie Portman), an American stripper who has moved to London, meets Dan (Jude Law) on the street. While looking at him, a taxi hits her. After taking her to the hospital, Dan begins dating Alice. A year later, Dan -- who has written a novel about Alice -- is bored. He flirts with photographer Anna (Julia Roberts). Pretending to be her in a chat room, he leads dermatologist Larry (Clive Owen) to an accidental meeting with Anna. As the years pass, both relationships disintegrate.

Director
Mike Nichols

Producer
Robert Fox, Scott Rudin, John Calley, Cary Brokaw

Screenwriter
Patrick Marber

Distributor
Sony Pictures Entertainment

Production Co
Columbia Pictures

Rating
R (Language|Graphic Sexual Dialogue|Nudity|Sexuality)

Genre
Drama

Original Language
English

Release Date (Theaters)
Dec 3, 2004, Wide

Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 25, 2011

Box Office (Gross USA)
$34.0M

Runtime
1h 41m

Sound Mix
Surround, Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS

Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.37:1)
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