Fresh
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.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Closing the Ring
Discover the love of a lifetime.
2007 · 1h 58m · R
Drama, Romance
Directed by
Richard Attenborough
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Closing the Ring
Overview
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, 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 and cast
- Richard Attenborough Director
- Shirley MacLaine as Ethel Ann
- Christopher Plummer as Jack
- Mischa Barton as Young Ethel Ann
- Stephen Amell as Teddy Gordon
- Neve Campbell as Marie
- Pete Postlethwaite as Quinlan
- Martin McCann as Jimmy
- Allan Hawco as Peter Etty
- Gregory Smith as Young Jack
- David Alpay as Chuck
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
32%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Closing the Ring needed to find a context for its free-flowing emotions.
Kamal Al-Solaylee, Globe and Mail
Rotten
With all the will in the world, this is a mere footnote to Attenborough's distinguished filmography.
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
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