Closing the Ring is a 2007 romantic drama film directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Shirley MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Stephen Amell, Neve Campbell, Pete Postlethwaite, and Brenda Fricker.
It was the final film directed by Attenborough, then aged 83, who died 7 years later.
Setting and Premise:
In rural Michigan in 1991, Marie Harris (Neve Campbell) delivers the eulogy at the funeral of her father Chuck (David Alpay), a U.S. Army Air Force veteran who had fought in World War II. The church is full of veterans who knew and loved him.
Meanwhile, her mother Ethel Ann (Shirley MacLaine) is sitting out on the church porch, smoking and nursing a hangover.
Old-fashioned (borderline schmaltzy), it’s a story of love and loss in WWII that spans several decades and different locales.
the tale tries too hard to balance the epic with the more intimate elements, but somehow remains uninvolving despite its superlative ensemble cast.
Met with mixed to negative critical response, Closing the Ring failed at the box office.
