| Closer (Superbit Edition) | 
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 432 reviews)
Sales Rank: 4310
Category: DVD
Actors: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Nick Hobbs
Director: Mike Nichols
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Studio: Sony Pictures
Brand: Sony
Label: Sony Pictures
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 104 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: COLD04847D
ISBN: 1404954953
UPC: 043396048478
EAN: 9781404954953
ASIN: B0007OCG4W
Release Date: March 29, 2005
Theatrical Release Date: December 3, 2004
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The Superbit titles utilize a special high bit rate digital encoding process which optimizes video quality while offering a choice of both DTS and Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. These titles have been produced by a team of Sony Pictures Digital Studios video, sound and mastering engineers and comes housed in a special package complete with a 4 page booklet that contains technical information on the Superbit process. By reallocating space on the disc normally used for value-added content, Superbit DVDs can be encoded at double their normal bit rate while maintaining full compatibility with the DVD video format.
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Four extremely beautiful people do extremely horrible things to one another in Closer, Mike Nichols' pungent adaptation of Patrick Marber's play that easily marks the Oscar-winning director's best work in years. Anna (Julia Roberts) is a photographer who specializes in portraits of strangers; Dan (Jude Law) is an obituary writer struggling to become a novelist; Alice (Natalie Portman) is an American stripper freshly arrived in London after a bad relationship; and Larry (Clive Owen) is a dermatologist who finds love under the most unlikely of circumstances. When their paths cross it's a dizzying supernova of emotions, as Nichols and Marber adroitly construct various scenes out of their lives that pair them again and again in various permutations of passion, heartbreak, anger, sadness, vengeance, pleading, deception, and most importantly, brutal honesty. It's only until you're more than halfway through the movie that you'll have to ask yourself exactly why you are watching such a beautifully tragic tale, as Closer is basically the ickiest, grossest, most dysfunctional parts of all your past relationships strung together into one movie. Ultimately, it falls to the four actors to draw you deeper into the story; all succeed relatively, but it's Law and Owen whose characters will cut you to the quick. Law proves that yet again he's most adept at playing charming, amoral bastards with manipulative streaks, and Owen is nothing short of brilliant as the character most turned on by the energy inherent in destructive relationships--whether he's on the giving or receiving end. --Mark Englehart
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 3 stars out of 4 December 18, 2008
The Bottom Line:
Though the movie sometimes suffers from too-quick jumps in time and the fact that the main characters are universally despicable, it is still worth watching due to the high caliber of the acting and writing.
 Boring September 9, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
This was one of the most boring movies I ever saw! It makes the word love truly just a "four letter word".
I even brought it to work and let my coworkers borrow it to get their opinion. Only one out of six said it was worth watching. I gave the movie to them!
Too close for comfort August 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Been there, done that. Who hasn't? That's why this movie is so watchable. Most of us, if we admit it, can identify with how these characters seek self gratification, hurt others, realize their mistakes, then go right ahead and make them again and again. We call it real life. Which you don't often get in movies. Highly recommended. But hasn't Jude Law played this same character now several times in movies, as well as at least once that we know about in real life with the babysitter?
Absolutely Appalling... July 28, 2008
2 out of 9 found this review helpful
I can't believe what a piece of trash this movie was. Between the pornographic language/images and absurd storyline, how this won or got noimated for anything is beyond me. Whatever possessed such big name actors to take on this cinematic garbage is not something I can understand. Don't see it, you will surely regret it.
 A must have movie!!! July 23, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you are a Julia Roberts fans, then this movie should be in your collection. It's kinda hard to follow, but it's very good!!!!!!
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