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.
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08/01/08
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Closing the Ring (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 14
Fresh: 4
Rotten:10
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton
Director: Richard Attenborough
Reviews for Closing the Ring
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All the extraneous detail cannot obscure what is a simple and mostly dopey love story, and a love story that unfolds in an oddly amateurish fashion.
08/01/08
Closing the Ring needed to find a context for its free-flowing emotions.
08/01/08
Top Critic Though this original screenplay by Peter Woodward has the potential for an interesting examination of the endurance of love, it’s saddled with characters who are not very believable and situations which are more melodramatic than realistic.
03/19/08
There are emotional high points in this film about one woman and the three men who love her, but the storytelling is cluttered and the constant to-ing and fro-ing from past to present detracts from the overall
03/01/08
Closing the Ring is well-acted throughout and it has a romantic appeal that is not to be sneered at, even if some may find it bland.
12/28/07
It would be a flinty heart indeed that fails to be touched by the rheumy-eyed playing of MacLaine and her co-star Christopher Plummer.
12/28/07
Newcomers Gregory Smith, Stephen Amell and David Alpay, as three young US Air Force men, act like daytime soap stars.
12/28/07
Preposterous, and a bit low-budget, but the story is socked over with earnest energy.
12/28/07
The film hangs on themes of lost love, longing and lies buried deep in family history, but with a tonne of sentimentality and mawkishness to carry it really drags its feet.
12/28/07
Accomplished filmmaking used to tell a story that doesn't really need such a big canvas.
12/28/07
Despite boasting cinematic pedigree on-screen and off, Closing The Ring is amateur and predictable – from Peter ‘son of Edward’ Woodward’s clunky soap opera screenplay to unimaginative lensing and ropey SFX.
12/28/07
With all the will in the world, this is a mere footnote to Attenborough’s distinguished filmography.
12/28/07
After recent disappointments Sir Dickie Attenborough is back on better, albeit old-fashioned, form.
12/28/07
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