Closer

Closer

2004

Four Londoners — two couples whose relationships intersect in painful and unexpected ways — strip each other bare through brutally honest, often cruel conversation as their desires and deceptions collide. Mike Nichols's adaptation of Patrick Marber's stage play is an unflinching examination of intimacy, infidelity and the damage people do to one another.

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Director

  • Mike Nichols

Cast

  • Natalie Portman
  • Jude Law
  • Julia Roberts
  • Clive Owen
  • Colin Stinton

Filming Locations

  • Clerkenwell

    Jude Law and Natalie Portman's flat is on Cowcross Street - when he runs after her and stands on his doorstep looking for her, you can see Smithfields market to his left. The doorway is just next to a restaurant on the bend.

  • London Aquarium

    The London Aquarium in County Hall on the South Bank is where Dan lures Larry into a meeting by posing online as a woman, a key scene in the film's exploration of deception.

  • National Portrait Gallery

    The rooftop restaurant of the National Portrait Gallery, with its sweeping views of Trafalgar Square and the London skyline, provided the backdrop for one of the film's key dramatic confrontations.

  • Postman's Park

    Postman's Park in the City of London is where Dan (Jude Law) has a moment of revelation, pausing to look at the memorial to heroic self-sacrifice - specifically the Alice Ayres plaque, which shares a name with Portman's character.

  • South Bank

    The South Bank, including the area near Westminster Bridge, was used for scenes of the characters moving through London, including the couple's flight from the London Eye reception.

  • Temple Place

    Temple Place by the Embankment was used for exterior London scenes in the film, providing a period-appropriate riverside backdrop.

  • Theatre Royal Drury Lane

    The lavish Grand Saloon bar of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane served as the Covent Garden opera house bar where Anna and Dan (Jude Law) enact further drama away from the stage.

  • Wapping

    Thomas More Square was used.

  • Whiteleys Shopping Centre

    Anna's (Julia Roberts) photographic exhibition - where Dan (Jude Law), Larry (Clive Owen) and Alice (Natalie Portman) converge in a crucial scene - was held in the Whiteleys shopping centre in Bayswater.