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Closer: “Why Wont You Let me Love You?” (“Why isn’t love enough?”)

Closer is a 2004 romantic drama film written by Patrick Marber, based on his award-winning 1997 play of the same name. The movie was produced and directed by Mike Nichols and stars Julia Roberts, Jude Law, Natalie Portman and Clive Owen. The film, like the play on which it is based, has been seen by some as a modern and tragic version of Mozart‘s opera Così fan tutte, with references to that opera in both the plot and the soundtrack.^[2] Owen starred in the play as Dan, the role assumed by Law in the film.

The film was recognized with a number of awards and nominations, including Oscar nominations and Golden Globe wins for both Portman and Owen for their performances in supporting roles

Closer
Theatrical release poster
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
Release date(s)	December 3, 2004
Running time	104 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$27 million[1]
Box office	$115,505,027

Closer (2004) Soundtrack: Blower’s Daughter with Damien Rice; Memorable Phrase: ‘Hello Stranger!’

Closer
Theatrical release poster
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
Release date(s)	December 3, 2004
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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