Closing the Ring (2007)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Richard Attenborough

Writer:

Peter Woodward (writer)

Release Date:

28 December 2007 (UK)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Tagline:

Discover the love of a lifetime

Plot:

A young man searches for the proper owner of a ring that belonged to a United States World War II bomber pilot who had crashed onto the Cave Hill just outside Belfast in Northern Ireland on 1st June 1944.

Plot Keywords:

World War 2 | Sex Scene | Bare Breasts | Female Rear Nudity

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Shirley MacLaine	...	Ethel Ann
Christopher Plummer	...	Jack
Dylan Roberts	...	Wilbur
Gene Dinovi	...	Weeping Veteran
Neve Campbell	...	Marie
Allan Hawco	...	Peter Etty
Pete Postlethwaite	...	Quinlan
Martin McCann	...	Jimmy
Steve Franks	...	Bugler
Chris Benson	...	Local Sheriff
John Travers	...	Young Quinlan
George Shane	...	Maginty
Kirsty Stuart	...	Young Eleanor
Marie Jones	...	Mrs. Doyle
Karen Lewis	...	Mrs. Dean

Also Known As:

L'amour à jamais (Canada: French title)
Richard Attenborough's Closing the Ring (International: English title) (poster title)

MPAA:

Rated R for brief sexuality, nudity and violent images.

Runtime:

118 min

Country:

UK | Canada | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Canada:14A | Ireland:15A | UK:12A | Australia:M | Brazil:12 | Netherlands:12 | Singapore:NC-16 | USA:R | Germany:12 | Portugal:M/12 | Finland:K-13

Filming Locations:

Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK

Company:

CTR

Trivia:

Construction workers of a demolition site in Belfast, where filming took place, were told to put the tearing down of the houses on hold and leave a number standing for the shooting of the film, the remainder of the houses were then blew up for the movie (for the affect of the bombs in the second world war).

Quotes:

Young Jack: You got your love. You got her, and you gave her away!
Teddy Gordon: I did not give her to anyone!

Movie Connections:

Features The Glenn Miller Story (1953)

Older audiences will understand this film.

The story of love lost to death during the second world war will never be tiresome for anyone whose family was touched by the war. The question is, can writers and actors still make the story real? For those of us in the audience tonight at The Screening Room in Kingston, watching Closing the Ring, the answer was a very satisfying 'yes'. Young actors were able to create the unselfconscious optimism and sense of honour of their 1940s counterparts heading off to war; the older cast members knew exactly how to portray the knowledge, understanding, and forgiveness that the present-day characters had learnt from their wartime experience, and kept in with such punishing self-control. If you don't like this film, I suspect you're under thirty. I'd suggest you prepare to discover its truth, and its very fine acting, in your later age. And be thankful if you're not on the verge of great loss in your youth. But then our soldiers are fighting and dying overseas as I write; perhaps young Ethel Anns and Teddys are making promises to each other at this very moment. In that case, open yourself to the possibility that this story might be about to unfold in your own life, even as you reject its apparent unreality.