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Closing the Ring is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Richard Attenborough released in USA on 14 september 2007 with Shirley MacLaine

Closing the Ring (2007)

Closing the Ring
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Released in USA 14 september 2007
Length 1h53
OriginCanada
Genres Drama,    War,    Romance
Rating64% 3.2459353.2459353.2459353.2459353.245935

Closing the Ring is a film directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Stephen Amell, Neve Campbell, Pete Postlethwaite, and Brenda Fricker. It was the final film directed by Attenborough before his death on August 24, 2014.

The film was released in both the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom on 28 December 2007.

Synopsis

The film opens in 1991, with the funeral of a World War II veteran. The man's daughter Marie (Neve Campbell) delivers the eulogy to a church full of veterans who knew and loved her father, while her mother Ethel Ann (Shirley MacLaine) is sitting out on the church porch, smoking and nursing a hangover. When Ethel Ann begins acting strangely, only her friend Jack (Christopher Plummer) seems to understand why. It quickly emerges that there is a lot Marie does not know about her mother's past and the true story of her love life.

Actors

Shirley MacLaine

(Ethel Ann)Christopher Plummer

(Jack)Mischa Barton

(Young Ethel Ann)Stephen Amell

(Teddy Gordon)Neve Campbell

(Marie)
And :
Pete Postlethwaite
Allan Hawco
Gregory Smith
Martin McCann
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