Closing the Ring (2007)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

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:

WWII | Female Rear Nudity | Sex | Male Female Relationship | 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:

The B-17 used in the filming of this movie is the "Yankee Lady", owned and operated by the Yankee Air Museum of Ypsilanti, MI. This aircraft also appeared in the movie "Tora! Tora! Tora!" The B-17 named Sally B also made an appearance in this film.

Quotes:

Young Ethel Ann: I will always love you Teddy. I'll be yours till the day I die, I swear.

Movie Connections:

Features The Glenn Miller Story (1954)

Soundtrack:

Lost Without Your Love

closing the ring

I saw this movie at the London Film Festival yesterday.It is an incredibly old fashioned piece of film-making that at times seems very contrived and manipulative,but it does contain genuine emotion and a story that keeps you watching from beginning to end.Some of the acting(especially from the 1941 period)is patchy,but in the 1991 period of the film,MacLaine is great,so is Postlewaite but the film is stolen by young Martin McCann as the naive Jimmy Reilly,who is responsible for piecing the lives together of the characters separated by time and oceans.After the showing,Lord Attenborough appeared for a short Q&A and gave us some insight into the making of the film and announced the film will receive it's premiere in Ireland and will be released nationwide on the 28th Dec.My guess is for anyone who has an elderly relative to catch up with over the Christmas period,and wants to take them out,then see this movie.They will love it and you might possibly get hooked.The audience yesterday obviously were.