Stars:
Julia Roberts,
Jude Law,
Natalie Portman,
Clive Owen
Director:
Mike Nichols
Summary: Dan is a young novelist who is becoming more and more exasperated by his girlfriend Alice's neediness. When he meets Anna at a photo-shoot, his loyalty to Alice is put to the test; but while the couple flirt, Anna soon marries dermatologist Larry. Despite her newly married position, Dan can't get Anna out of his mind and the two soon embark on an affair...
Are humans meant to mate for life? What drives someone in a perfectly good relationship to cheat and risk losing the one that they love and that loves them? Is it possible to love more than one person at the same time? How well does anyone really know the one that they love? Directed by Mike Nichols (THE GRADUATE, BIRDCAGE, WORKING GIRL), CLOSER questions the nature of relationships and fidelity as it follows the tangled web created by Dan (Jude Law), Alice (Natalie Portman), Anna (Julia Roberts), and Larry (Clive Owen). Dan, a British writer of obituaries, and Alice, a young American stripper, meet in the film's opening scene when a London cab runs her down. Cut to a year later: Dan and Alice are now a couple, but he is suddenly smitten with Anna, a beautiful American photographer. In an ironic twist of fate, Anna meets Larry, a British doctor, and they are soon a couple, despite Dan's continuing obsession. But the entanglements don't end there, and ultimately, someone is sure to get hurt. The four players do justice to a script that is humorous, raw and disarmingly honest about adult relationships.