Movie
Closing the Ring
Overview
During the 1940s, a group of young men go off to war, leaving behind Ethel Ann, who is in love with one of them, Teddy. In modern-day Belfast, a man named Jimmy endeavors to return a ring found in the wreckage of a crashed plane. He travels to Michigan, where the grown Ethel Ann, who married another man after Teddy was killed in battle, now lives. Ethel Ann must decide whether to go with Jimmy to meet the soldier who last saw Teddy alive.
Details
- Release date
- 2007-09-14
- Runtime
- 118 min
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Status
- Released
- Production
- CTR, Spinster, Prospero Pictures, Scion Films
- Country
- Canada, United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Shirley MacLaine as Ethel Ann
- Christopher Plummer as Jack
- Mischa Barton as Young Ethel Ann
- Stephen Amell as Teddy Gordon
- Neve Campbell as Marie
- Pete Postlethwaite as Quinlan
- Martin McCann as Jimmy
- Allan Hawco as Peter Etty
- Gregory Smith as Young Jack
- David Alpay as Chuck
- John Travers as Young Quinlan
- Dylan Roberts as Wilbur
Crew
- Richard Attenborough - Director
- Peter Woodward - Screenplay
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