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Closing the Ring

Shirley MacLaine (Actor), Christopher Plummer (Actor), Richard Attenborough (Director) Rated:
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4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 264 ratings
IMDb6.5/10.0
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Genre Romance
Format NTSC, Widescreen, Color, Subtitled
Contributor Mischa Barton, Christopher Plummer, Richard Attenborough, Shirley MacLaine
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 57 minutes

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From Academy Award-winning director Richard Attenborough (Gandhi) comes this sweeping romance starring Shirley MacLaine (Terms of Endearment), Christopher Plummer (A Beautiful Mind), Mischa Barton (TV's The O.C.), and Neve Campbell (The Company). Moving seemlessly through time, this lush epic follows a beautiful 1940's Michigan girl (Barton) secretly married to a WWII pilot who crashes in the hills near Belfast, Ireland. 50 years later his wedding ring resurfaces -- along with the smoldering secrets that have kept the widow (MacLaine), her estranged daughter (Campbell) and devoted friend (Plummer) each from finding true love.

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A love story spanning more than five decades, Closing the Ring may appeal to fans of The Notebook. Academy Award-winning director Richard Attenborough (Ghandi) utilizes shifting time frames to tell the story of Ethel Ann and WWII fighter pilot Teddy. The two fall madly in love and secretly marry in a sweet ceremony that is destined for tragedy. When Teddy's plane is shot down in Belfast, he is discovered by an Irish boy who makes a promise to the dying soldier--he will return the wedding band to Teddy's young widow in the United States. Flash forward to the 1990s: An elderly Ethel Ann (Shirley MacLaine) is at her husband Chuck's funeral. He was never the love of her life and Ethel Ann had always lived her life full of "what ifs." Her grieving daughter Marie (Neve Campbell) notices the void, but can't comprehend why her mother has never been happy. When Teddy's wedding band is finally returned to Ethel Ann--50 years after his death--the memento opens up a floodgate of emotions, and Ethel Ann is able to get some closure on a part of her life that she has tried so hard to both forget and remember. As a family friend points out to Marie, "Everybody needs to cry, and your mother never did." At times slow and uneven, Closing the Ring rings true in the modern-day vignettes. MacLaine is exquisite in her role, as is Christopher Plummer as a longtime friend. But when the scenes flash back to the 1940s, the younger actors don't share the same on-screen chemistry or charisma. Mischa Barton is beautiful as the young Ethel Ann, but her moments with Stephen Amell (as Teddy) are a little forced. Campbell brings intelligence and gravity to her role, but is underused in the film. Viewers can't help wonder how different the tone of the movie may have been had she been cast as the younger Ethel Ann. --Jae-Ha Kim

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ R (Restricted)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.4 x 5.31 x 0.47 inches; 1.6 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Richard Attenborough
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Widescreen, Color, Subtitled
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 57 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ January 27, 2009
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ Spanish
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ The Weinstein Company
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001DJ7PSC
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.3 4.3 out of 5 stars 264 ratings

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Lee Quick
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and deceptive.. a must watch
Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2011
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If it there were 10 stars it would not be enough to rate this movie.
....First it is not a sweet love story. It is a story of people making promises to people they love or admire. Then there is the final promise I won't mention. You find every single prominent character either gives a promise or agrees to a promise and this story is the result of those promises.
.... It covers a period of time from WWII in both the midwest US and Ireland. You may be surprised by the Irish portion. Watch carefully.
....Then there are the switches between the 1940s and the 1990s. It goes back and forth, it gives you a scene in 1940, then switches to the present where the result of what happened in the 1940s is shown to you in present time of the movie. Or you see an action in the present time and next thing you know you are watching what caused this scene.
....I loved this time switching to introduce you to a problem or a solution the characters came up with to deal with the promises made and often resulted in.... well you have to watch the film for this part. I know better than to spoil it. Lets just say it enhances the story telling.
....Please be able to really watch the movie, notice the promises and then see the results of keeping and in some cases not keeping the promises. I promise you won't regret it. The screenwriter writes this multi layered movie with such an ability to show you humanity trying to cope.
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Bob A. Gabbert
4.0 out of 5 stars A Story of Love, Loss, and redemption
Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2010
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This story was written around a real event that happened--the finding of a ring. I got this movie, because Mischa Barton was in it, and in my opinion, she is one of the most beautiful women in the world. She is also a good actor. However, I was blown away by this movie, because it is so much more than I expected. It covers two periods--the 1940s and currently, and in two different countries--the United States and Ireland.

A young woman (Mischa Barton) sends her newly married husband off to World War II, never to see him again. Shirley MacLaine plays the young woman grown old with time. The story is told through flashbacks to her earlier life, and cutaways to present day Ireland.

Christopher Plummer is excellent as the older version of the boy who wanted to marry her himself, but she was in love with his friend. He came back from the war, and has stood by her the ensuing decades even though she ultimately married another man.

This is a story about love. The losing of it, and coming to terms with that loss late in life. This is a surprising good movie no one every heard of.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Weight of True Promises
Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2009
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Love can be sought and found along with forgiveness, redemption,loss, and holding on. War makes all these things much more serious and uncertain to every character in this wonderful movie. From direction to every actors performance, I was taken on a journey that was a window into the hearts and minds of the young, the old, the cultures of Ireland and the U.S.A. as well as the transformation that can come through allowing the whole truth to emerge. This is a wonderful film and I highly recommend it to anyone who needs closure in any part of life.
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Wayne and Cindy
5.0 out of 5 stars Heroic. Beautiful. Poignant.
Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2016
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Not many movies move you emotionally. This one, i think particularly appeals to the female sensibility, however, i was engaged immediately and wept at the end with sadness and joy at the same time. Guys, do your ladies a favor and sit through this movie. I promise you'll enjoy it, and she'll love you for it. Its one of those movies, that ... at the end, you just kind of sit there, unable to say anything. Heroic. Beautiful. Poignant.
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gambitrmp
3.0 out of 5 stars Truely sad story
Reviewed in the United States on November 29, 2010
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This is a well put together movie but I can't rate it over a 3 because it's too sad to be overly enjoyable to me.

Life's hard enough without falling in love is almost a quote from the movie. Of coarse if not for a war things wouldn't likely turn out that way so you might say war sucks is the obvious message you'll get out of it.

To be honest, I've been watching a lot of the OC on soapnet recently & bought this used for the topless scenes of Mischa Barton. If that's what you're looking for you will get a nice direct but short butt & 2 breast (one frontal & one side) shots.

I did enjoy the movie despite the sad events but I'd suggest a rental not a purchase. I can't see much appeal in watching it more than once. Used you can buy it for little more than a rental price if you think you will want to own it ... say if you're a Mischa Barton fan & want to check her out now & then but I'd rather just watch the OC myself.
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J. McGinley
5.0 out of 5 stars Unexpectedly Fine Film
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2017
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What could have been A Really Corny Movie instead morphed into a quietly lovely story, helmed by some fine acting from great old pros and nicely balanced with some younger faces. An interesting finish, which I admit I really didn't see coming, and a film I'd have no problem recommending to friends in the mood for something intelligently pleasant.
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Lisa JG Weikel
1.0 out of 5 stars Trite and a disappointment, especially given the cast
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2016
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Ugh. Trite and a disappointment, especially given the cast. Couldn't even finish it.
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Xicily
4.0 out of 5 stars Ring of Friends
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2018
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I purchased this movie for Stephen Amell. I ended up really liking the story and wanted to see more of it. Well acted too. If you're a fan of war movies or romance movies you will like this one.
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corneliusse
3.0 out of 5 stars J'adore ce film mais...
Reviewed in Canada on September 26, 2019
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Seulement en anglais j'aurai préféré en Français VFQ,livraison assez rapide
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Anthony Kirby,
5.0 out of 5 stars A veteran flying ace ( Christopher Plummer) is in love with her
Reviewed in Canada on February 22, 2016
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'Closing the Ring' is a life affirming film with nuanced performances by veteran actors Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Pete Postlethwaite, and Brenda Fricker. Younger actors Mischa Barton, Neve Campbell and Martin McCann also shine.
Because of a plane crash towards the end of WW1 in the Belfast area a newly wed Michigan beauty is deeply traumatised. She still lives in the same house she shared with her late husband and has an area behind a false door dedicated to him. Now in late middle-age she's still in mourning. .A veteran flying ace ( Christopher Plummer) is in love with her. She keeps him at arms length. Her relationship with her grown daughter (Neve Campbell) is also troubled. Then she has a communication from Northern Ireland which changes everything. This life film was Lord Attenborough's last project. He made it while mourning the loss of a daughter who died in the South Asian Tsuynami . A fitting end to a brilliant career!
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anna.p
5.0 out of 5 stars Commovente, tremendamente romantico
Reviewed in Italy on January 30, 2015
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E' la storia di un amore immortale che al finale ti lascia un sapore dolce amaro in bocca che ti fa continuare a pensare e ripensare alle scene con una sorta di malinconia romantica.
Molto commovente
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C. Porter
5.0 out of 5 stars Superlative storytelling from Lord Attenborough
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 14, 2008
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This film got an awful lot of stick from the critics, and I genuinely can't see why. It boasts class names from both sides of the pond and has an undeniable emotional pull.

There has been criticism of a 'contrived' ending, but the whole tug of the narrative is actually based on real events, so why bleat on about that? Besides, what do we go to the cinema for, if not to be transported elsewhere?

I loved it at the cinema, and hope to on DVD - I'm looking forward to whatever the extras will be. The 'breakdown' scenes of Christopher Plummer and Pete Postlethwaite are worth the entrance fee alone - but there's much more to recommend here. A plot set in two time zones (featuring the same characters 50 years apart) keeps you on your toes as the story slowly, carefully, delicately unfolds.

Does that sound dull? It's not, it's elegiac and measured - and yet, in places, surprisingly sparky and funny, too. Shirley MacLaine is on dazzling form as she delivers a multi-layered and subtle performance. And Brenda Fricker and newcomer Martin McCann (look up the word 'zesty' in the dictionary, and you'll find his Equity headshot) create some beautifully judged comedy moments.

Let's be clear about this - 'The Matrix' it ain't (though, without giving the game away, there is peril and guns and bombs to be located at just the right moments) - it's a lovingly-told story, and it's all in the telling of it. At turns moving, uplifting, frustrating, unbelievable, fun, harrowing - just like life, really!

Oh, and lest I forget, I am bound to say there is a killer song on the end credits: "Lost Without Your Love" sung by Amy Pearson: stunning - it's a real 'My Heart Will Go On' moment. Had me reaching for a hanky!

So, in re-appraisal, this is a film that deserves more consideration, and more attention - not least because you will only truly appreciate it upon multiple viewings once all the secrets have been revealed, so a DVD purchase seems nigh-on essential.

I hope Richard Attenborough continues to make this sort of film, and that the critics grow some hearts.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Recommend to watch
Reviewed in Canada on May 15, 2021
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Great acting, excellent settings
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