Closer (Superbit Edition) | 
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Director: Mike Nichols
Actors: Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Nick Hobbs
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  367 reviews
Sales Rank: 5705
Format: Ac-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 104
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D04847D
ISBN: 1404954953
UPC: 043396048478
EAN: 9781404954953
ASIN: B0007OCG4W
Theatrical Release Date: December 3, 2004
Release Date: March 29, 2005
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Condition: **NO ARTWORK - NEW BLANK CASE** Guaranteed to play. Normal case wear with stickers, very slight scratches. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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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
Description
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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 A must have movie!!! July 23, 2008
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!!!!!!
brutal truth July 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
LOOK! It's this simple, the people that give this move 4 stars or less are still either 1. sheltered or 2. jaded. Either way it's an inability to face the facts of what this move represents.... the utter, brutal and cold facts about who we ALL are! Proof again that people don't like the truth! "Truth is a game... we all play to win." As a side note, those who rate this poorly are nothing more than bending, compromising Anna's... a depressive defined as= "they want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out in the world and live... which could be depressing." -Larry (Clive Owen)
 Don't waste your time...depressing movie to be avoided July 17, 2008
Don't waste your time on this movie of four emotional cripples. I saw nothing redeeming here, lies, deceit, obsession, codependency, but nothing I'd say meeting even a broad definition of love. Four broken souls living hell on earth. Depressing movie to be avoided.
Worst Movie Ever June 12, 2008
I can't think of a worse movie. I can't believe that I sat through the whole thing, but I guess I was hoping that there would be something redeeming about it. I was wrong. It sucked until the bitter, awful end.
Why did I buy this in Blu-Ray? April 18, 2008
Plenty of reviews of the movie already, so either you like it or you didn't. I couldn't really see any reason to have bought this in Blu-Ray. There were no alternate endings or anything, it's just a drama, so the graphic impact of the upgraded player are minimal.... This seems like a waste of money when a regular DVD would have done just as well.
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