Closer
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Short description
Closer follows four people in London whose romantic lives become tangled through a series of chance meetings and choices. Dan, a writer, is drawn to Alice, a young American woman he meets by chance. His attention later shifts to Anna, a photographer, while Larry, a doctor, becomes involved with Anna and also with Alice. What begins as attraction turns into a cycle of deception and rivalry, as each person struggles to understand what they actually want from the others.
Mike Nichols directed the film, the seventeenth of the eighteen features he made and the one that followed Wit and preceded Charlie Wilson's War. Patrick Marber wrote the screenplay, adapting his own play, and produced alongside Cary Brokaw and John Calley. The cast is led by Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts and Clive Owen, with smaller parts for Colin Stinton and Nick Hobbs.
Released in December 2004, the film cost about 27 million dollars and took in roughly 116 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds a rating of 7.1 from around 250,000 votes, and on TMDB a rating of 6.8 from more than 3,800 votes. A critics' rating of 7 out of 10 from 207 reviews places it broadly in line with the audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The park where Dan and Alice are walking is Postman's Park in London, near St. Paul's Cathedral.
- The original Broadway production featured the following actors: Anna Friel as Alice, Rupert Graves as Dan, Ciaran Hinds as Larry, and Natasha Richardson as Anna.
- The opera that Dan and Anna are late for, and which the audience can hear in the background, is "Cosi Fan Tutte".
- The film is based on the well-known play by Patrick Marber.
- Initially, Kate Blanchett was supposed to play Anna, but she left the project due to pregnancy.
- Damien Rice, who performed the song “Blower's Daughter,” also wrote a song for the film of the same name – “Closer” – but it was not completed by the time the film was released and therefore was not included on the soundtrack.
- Clive Owen played Dan in the original theatrical production.
- The phrase uttered by Natalie Portman’s character towards the end of the film – “Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off” – served as the title for one of Panic! At The Disco’s songs.
- By mutual decision of Natalie Portman and director Mike Nichols, explicit scenes were removed from the film in which Portman's character, completely nude, performs a striptease for Larry, the character played by Clive Owen.
- At Anna's exhibition, the four main characters of the film gather together for the first and last time.
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