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Closing the Ring (2007)

Closing the Ring poster
Directed by
Richard Attenborough
Genre
drama film, war film, romance film
Country
United Kingdom, United States, Canada
Runtime
1h 53m
Rated
R
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 106 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An elderly woman in present day is haunted by the memory of her fiancé who died in World War II. Decades later, a ring found on a crash site connects her past to a young man in modern-day Belfast.

melancholicnostalgicbittersweetslow-pacedpoignantgentleretrospectiveromantic

What happens

Closing the Ring is a 2007 romantic drama 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, then aged 83, who died seven years later. The film was released in both the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom on 28 December 2007. Closing the Ring is an international co-production between the United Kingdom, Canada, and United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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