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Closing the Ring

Play trailer Poster for Closing the Ring R,  2007,  1h 59m,  Drama/ Romance Play Trailer Watchlist
Stream Now Watchlist 32% 19 Reviews Tomatometer 58% 2,500+ Ratings Popcornmeter
32% Tomatometer 19 Reviews 58% Popcornmeter 2,500+ Ratings
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann (Mischa Barton), who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy (Martin McCann) endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann (Shirley MacLaine), who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
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Deborah Ross The Spectator Aug 22, 2018
Credulity is stretched so far it twangs back into your face Go to Full Review
Peter Howell Toronto Star Aug 1, 2008
3/4
Attenborough is a past master at this type of drama, and he confidently shifts between the decades, avoiding the confusion so common to non-linear films like this. Go to Full Review
Kamal Al-Solaylee Globe and Mail Aug 1, 2008
2/4
Closing the Ring needed to find a context for its free-flowing emotions. Go to Full Review
Toni Vall Cinemanía (Spain) Nov 4, 2020
2.5/5
[A] moth-eaten film. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Sarah Manvel Cinemattraction Aug 7, 2018
Has Plummer or Postlethwaite ever given a bad performance? Attenborough is no auteur, as he says himself, but his ability to enable his actors to shine makes Closing the Ring a film which really grows on you. Go to Full Review
Joseph Proimakis Movies for the Masses May 10, 2009
2/5
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Cast & Crew

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Richard Attenborough

Director

Shirley MacLaine

Ethel Ann

Christopher Plummer

Jack

Mischa Barton

Young Ethel Ann

Gregory Smith

Young Jack

Martin McCann

Jimmy

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Synopsis During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann (Mischa Barton), who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy (Martin McCann) endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann (Shirley MacLaine), who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
Director
Richard Attenborough
Screenwriter
Peter Woodward
Production Co
Premiere Picture
Rating
R (Nudity|Brief Sexuality|Violent Images)
Genre
Drama, Romance
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Mar 28, 2017
Runtime
1h 59m
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