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Closing the Ring

2007 · 118 min

A sweeping, bittersweet romance that moves between wartime sacrifice and present-day reckoning, asking for patience as it slowly reveals its emotional weight.

Genres
Drama, Romance
Tagline
Discover the love of a lifetime.
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.

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • grief
  • memory
  • war
  • loyalty
Places
  • small town
  • big city
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour2
Realism7
Romance7
Tension3
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Richard Attenborough
Written by
Peter Woodward
Starring
Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Stephen Amell, Neve Campbell, Pete Postlethwaite, Martin McCann, Allan Hawco
Music
Jeff Danna
Cinematography
Roger Pratt
Runtime
118 min
Country
Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
Languages
English

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