Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton
During the Second World War, a B-17 bomber crashes near the city of Belfast. The plane's dying rear gunner asks a local to return a ring to a girlfriend back in the States. Half a century later, a you...( read more
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DVD Release Date: January 27, 2009
Stats: 280 reviews
I like these sorts of stories. It is like a whodunit, but instead of a CSI figuring out who the killer is, we have to figure out how everyone is connected. I wondered for most of the movie what Mr. Quinlan (Pete Postlethwaite)'s connection to the story was.
Closing the Ring is an epic story and intimate tale starring Shirley MacLaine and Neve Campbell as a mother and daughter who find a relic from the past sparking an incendiary series of events. The year is 1991, and as a small American town mourns the passing of beloved World War ...( read more)
A pale story with good interpreation. Not really inspired or surprising. Overall, it's excessively cheesy.
Not that crash hot, although I did sit through the whole thing. It really had the feel of a tv movie, and the worst soundtrack ever. The scenes with Ethel and Teddy are nice, but I wasn't too keen on the rest of it. Neve Campbell is highly unappealing in this, the scene where s...( read more)
3.5 stars! I don't like having emotions wrung from me and this is another of those movies that tries to do that (to me, at least).
Part war movie (WWII), part love story, part international (Belfast), part political (IRA), this movies tries too hard to include EVERYTHING and ...( read more)
The story of a recent widow revisting her past via a ring that is found in the Northern Ireland countryside in Belfast. This was an okay story however all the time shifting back and forth had me dizzy. Directed by Richard Attenborough and Produced by him as well which is what b...( read more)
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