Konterr Brilliant and touching

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Jackson Booth-Millard This was the last film to be directed by Lord Sir Richard Attenborough (A Bridge Too Far, Ghandi, In Love and War), with a good cast and a reasonable rating by critics, I was willing to give it a try. Basically the films opens with the funeral of a World War II veteran in 1991, other veterans who knew the man watch his daughter Marie (Neve Campbell) deliver a eulogy, while her mother Ethel Ann (Shirley MacLaine) sits outside the church for a smoke and to nurse a hangover. Ethel Ann is acting strangely, her friend Jack (Christopher Plummer) is the only one who understands why, it emerges that there are a few things Marie does not know about her mother's past, in particular the truth about her love life. The story flashes back in time to when young Ethel Ann (Mischa Barton) was lively and optimistic, she falls in love with young farmer Teddy Gordon (Arrow's Stephen Amell), but he goes off to fight in the Second World War, along with his friends Jack (Small Soldiers' Gregory Smith) and Chuck (David Alpay), but not all of them survive. While continuing to flash back in time, in the present day, a young Ulster nationalist Jimmy (Martin McCann) in Belfast finds a ring in the wreckage of a crashed B-17, he is determined to return it to the woman who once owned it, this eventually leads him to Michigan, after he finds out that this woman is Ethel Ann. She reveals a wall that Jack and Chuck boarded up for her back in 1944, it is covered in souvenirs of Teddy, Marie is shocked and angered that her mother was in love with Teddy, not her father Chuck. Ethel Ann travels with Jimmy to Belfast, friend Michael Quinlan (Pete Postlethwaite) finally confesses to her that was he was on the hill when Teddy died, and that his words freed Ethel Ann from her promise to love him forever, he allowed her to make her own choice. Qunilan is tearful telling Ethel Ann he spent 50 years looking for the ring that was lost in the final blast that killed Teddy, and regrets never informing Ethel of Teddy's dying words. Jack joins Ethel Ann in Belfast, he finally admits that he has always loved her, Ethel Ann is finally able to cry and properly grieve, they share a hug, it is implied that this may be the beginning of a romance. Also starring Brenda Fricker as Eleanor Reilly and John Travers as Young Quinlan. MacLaine does fairly well as the older woman, but it is indeed Barton that is more likable as the younger version, Campbell is a little too moral, and the supporting actors are fine in the roles, it is a simple enough story, a secret love story discovered through a simple object, a ring, it is corny and full of sentimentality, but there are parts that you keep you just about engaged, overall not a bad romantic drama. Worth watching, at least once!

SnoopyStyle It's 1991 Branagan, Michigan. Marie (Neve Campbell) is burying his dead father Chuck. Her mother Ethel Ann (Shirley MacLaine) is unmoved by his death and more concerned about Marie and her boyfriend Peter. She is comforted by Jack (Christopher Plummer). In Belfast, Quinlan (Pete Postlethwaite) and Jimmy Reilly are digging up the wreckage of a B-17. Jimmy finds a ring. Back in 1941 Belfast, Northern Ireland, Ethel Ann (Mischa Barton) is friends with Jack (Gregory Smith) and Chuck. Teddy Gordon (Stephen Amell) is building a house for her and she's in love. Jack, Chuck and Teddy are all going up in B-17.The movie moves back and forth too much and too easily between the time periods in the beginning. The three plot lines don't mash together well. The modern day Irish story is stuck out in the middle of nowhere with its own world. Jimmy could have just showed up with the ring without Belfast. Richard Attenborough is going old school with this romance drama. There is something lacking in the 1941 story. The actors are probably not up to the same standard as their older self. Gregory Smith's little mustache is silly. David Alpay and Stephen Amell are lifeless. Mischa Barton tries but she's too frail unlike the ballsy broad that is Shirley MacLaine. It's probably asking too much for the two young actors to try to be MacLaine and Christopher Plummer. Those two elder statesmen exude real acting power. Their section with Neve Campbell is a great little indie.

Petri Pelkonen The year is 1991.A world war veteran has died.Then some secrets of the past are revealed.Ethel Ann, the wife of the deceased, never loved his husband.He loved somebody else during the war time.In Ireland a ring is discovered.Richard Attenborough, 87, is the director and producer of Closing the Ring.This is the last movie Attenborough has made.It will probably remain his last, since he's not in the best of shape, according to his brother, Sir David Attenborough.There is a very nice cast in this movie.Shirley MacLaine portrays Ethel Ann.Mischa Barton is her younger version.Neve Campbell plays the daughter Marie.Christopher Plummer plays Jack.His younger version is played by Gregory Smith.Stephen Amell is Teddy Gordon.Brenda Fricker is Grandma Reilly.Martin McCann is Jimmy Reilly.Pete Postlethwaite, who we sadly lost to cancer on January at 64, plays Michael Quinlan.John Travers is the young Michael.David Alpay plays Chuck.This may not be the best of the director, but it has its moments.The drama plays pretty well.So it's a movie worth seeing by Richard Attenborough.

Danielle I really wanted to like this movie, which I saw on video recently, several years after its theatrical release. I'm a sucker for a romance, but even I found this overly sentimental. I thought the acting was terrific and the casting was genius - having Christopher Plummer and Shirley McLaine played as youngsters by Gregory Smith (from Everwood) and Misha Barton improved the somewhat uneven movie and made it more watchable than it would have been. I liked the way the mystery played out - I liked that the audience had to piece things together. But once you knew what had happened, it wasn't as satisfying as I had hoped. I also found the IRA violence in the modern story strange and out of place - sort of confusing and unnecessary in a movie that was already fairly complicated. Overall it was a pretty affecting romance and family drama about love and forgiveness and all that good stuff, but not quite as good as it could have been.