Closer

Closer (2004)

Timing: 1:44 (104 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2004-12-03

Country

United Kingdom, United States

Production

Columbia Pictures, Inside Track

Genre

Drama, Romance

Budget

$27 000 000

Revenue

$115 505 027

Website

https://www.sonypictures.com/movies/closer

Director

Mike Nichols

Actors

Jude Law, Natalie Portman, Julia Roberts, Clive Owen, Colin Stinton, Nick Hobbs, Steve Benham, Elizabeth Bower, Daniel Dresner, Rrenford Junior Fagan
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Scenario

Producer

Mike Nichols, Cary Brokaw, John Calley, Scott Rudin, Celia D. Costas, Robert Fox

Operator

Stephen Goldblatt

Composer

Artist

Audition

Sondra James

Editing

John Bloom, Antonia Van Drimmelen
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• The film is based on the well-known play by Patrick Marber.
• Initially, Kate Blanchett was supposed to play Anna, but she left the project due to pregnancy.
• Clive Owen played Dan in the original theatrical production.
• The opera that Dan and Anna are late for, and which the audience can hear in the background, is "Cosi Fan Tutte".
• The park where Dan and Alice are walking is Postman's Park in London, near St. Paul's Cathedral.
• The original Broadway production featured the following actors: Anna Friel as Alice, Rupert Graves as Dan, Ciaran Hinds as Larry, and Natasha Richardson as Anna.
• Damien Rice, who performed the song “Blower's Daughter,” also wrote a song for the film of the same name – “Closer” – but it was not completed by the time the film was released and therefore was not included on the soundtrack.
• By mutual decision of Natalie Portman and director Mike Nichols, explicit scenes were removed from the film in which Portman's character, completely nude, performs a striptease for Larry, the character played by Clive Owen.
• The phrase spoken by Natalie Portman's character near the end of the film – “Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off” served as the title for one of the songs by Panic! At The Disco.
• At Anna's exhibition, the four main characters of the film gather together for the first and last time.
• The phrase uttered by Natalie Portman’s character towards the end of the film – “Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off” – served as the title for one of Panic! At The Disco’s songs.