• Genres: Drama, Romance
• Tagline: If you believe in love at first sight, you never stop looking.
• Plot Outline: An intriguing story of passion, drama, love, and abandonment involving two couples, which only gets more complicated when the man from the first couple gets acquainted with the woman from the second coupling.
• Plot Keywords: Independent Film | Based On Play | Female Nudity | Infidelity | Dermatologist | Adultery | Cigarette Smoking | Hospital | Jealousy | Love At First Sight | Obsession | Photo Shoot | Photographer | Sex Talk | Strip Club | Video Surveillance | Doctor | Exotic Dancer | London England | New York City | Wig | Writer | Cybersex | Airport | American Expatriate | Aquarium | Art Gallery | Breakup | Bus | Chat Room | Cheating On Girlfriend | Customs | Dating | Divorcee | Divorce | Extramarital Affair | Flashback Sequence | Hit By Car | Hotel | Impersonation | Manhattan | Marriage | Masturbation Scene | Melodrama | Memorial | Mistaken Identity | Opera | Practical Joke | Restaurant | Shaving | Taxicab | Vulgarity | Adulterous Wife | Stripper
• Synopsis: A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. CLOSER is director Mike Nichols’ critically acclaimed look at four strangers - Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen - with one thing in common: each other. Adaptedby Patrick Marber from his award-winning stage play, CLOSER “VIBRATES WITH EROTICISM, BRUISING LAUGHS, AND DYNAMIC PERFORMANCES. CLOSER IS A TRIUMPH!” - Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
• Actors: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Nick Hobbs, Colin Stinton (see more) Steve Benham, Elizabeth Bower, Jaclynn Tiffany Brown, Michael Haley, Steve Morphew, Abdul Popoola, Animesh Raval, Peter Rnic, Bret Yount (see less)
• Directors: Mike Nichols

Review

The first time i saw this film i wasn’t sure what to think- quite a lot of bad language, heavy sexual scenes (yet no actual sex!)and a lot of uncomfortably brutal honesty.

At the end of the film i realized it was the kind of film you needed to watch again, so i did, (a few hours later) and it was a little bit more perfect. It’s a dark tale of love and dishonesty, and basically holds a lot of truth to our darker thoughts we don’t want to admit to.

It is cleverly written, with talented actors (it was nice to see the big screen names do something a bit different) and overall a beautiful film.

I recommend it to anyone who likes a slightly deeper darker tale.