Closing the Ring
2007 · Movie · R · 118 min · ★ 6.2 · 37% critics
A ring recovered from a long-ago wartime plane crash sets off a journey linking 1990s Belfast with memories from World War II. As the search reaches an older woman in America, buried feelings, unfinished grief, and a lost love resurface across decades.
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Details
- Years
- 2007
- Release date
- 2007-09-14
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Max quality
- HD
- Critic score
- 37/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.2/10 (106 votes)
About
You may like this if you enjoy nostalgic, emotionally direct romances about love and regret across decades, in the vein of Love in the Time of Cholera; Not for you if heavy sentiment and shifting timelines frustrate you.
Pros: moving central mystery; gentle warmth; strong older cast | Cons: uneven time jumps; overly sentimental; weak younger performances
Themes
- airplane
- world war ii
- bomber
- love
- soldier
- battle
- belfast, north ireland
- ring
Cast & crew
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
Directed by Richard Attenborough