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Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
 
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
 
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
 
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Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role - Clive Owen
 
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Natalie Portman
 
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role - Natalie Portman
 
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Best Motion Picture - Drama
 
Best Screenplay
 
Achievement in directing - Mike Nichols
 
 
 
 

Closer


Love stinks. Especially in this caustic adaptation by Marber of his 1997 drama. Waifish stripper Alice (Portman) enchants writer Dan (Law) after they meet cute in London. Dan later writes a novel about his life with Alice and indulges in a flirtation with successful photographer Anna (Roberts). Dan then decides to impersonate Anna during an Internet sex chat and arranges to meet dermatologist Larry (a ferocious performance by Owen), who does meet, and eventually marries, the real Anna. Dan has an affair with Anna, which Larry finds out about (in a laceratingly brutal verbal scene), and Larry meets the abandoned Alice without knowing about their secondhand connection. Marber changed Alice's fate from his play and made both female characters American to accommodate his leads. Owen played the role of Dan in the original National Theatre production.
 
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101 minutes
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Not for the faint of heart
KLN at 2008-04-02 17:40:09
This is an intense, very grown-up look at love, infidelity, manipulation, and dysfunctional relationships. No character in this movie is entirely sympathetic but I still found myself drawn into their plights. Clive Owen is amazing and frighteningly intense. And Natalie Portman broke my heart in one scene. Don't go into this movie looking for a happy ending.
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If you believe in love at first sight, you never stop looking.
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Color
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DVD, HD DVD
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Sony Pictures Home Video
 

 
 
 
 
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