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 Theatrical release poster |
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| Directed by | Mike Nichols |
| Produced by | Mike Nichols Cary Brokaw John Calley |
| Screenplay by | Patrick Marber |
| Based on | Closer by Patrick Marber |
| Starring | Julia Roberts Jude Law Natalie Portman Clive Owen |
| Music by | Suzana Peric |
| Cinematography | Stephen Goldblatt |
| Editing by | John Bloom Antonia Van Drimmelen |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
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| Running time | 104 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $27 million[1] |
| Box office | $115,505,027 |
In the opening scene, a girl (Natalie Portman) and a young man (Jude Law) see each other for the first time from opposite sides of a street inLondon. The girl looks in the wrong direction as she crosses the street and is hit by a taxicab right in front of the young man. He rushes over; she smiles at him and says, “hello, stranger”. He takes her to a hospital, where she is treated and released. Afterward, on the way to his office, they stop by Postman’s Park. Here they introduce themselves: she is 20 years old and has just arrived in London from the United States where she had been stripping for a living; he’s Dan Woolf, an unsuccessful aspiring British writer who is on his way to work, where he writes obituaries for a national newspaper. Before he leaves her and goes to work, he asks her for her name and she answers Alice Ayres.
Memorial plaque on the Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice, Postman’s Park, London. Plaque designed by William De Morgan. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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